Bolivian President Evo Morales Wednesday called on industrialized nations to pay many billions of dollars in climate-change "reparations" to developing nations for the environmental impact of decades of pollution.
Bolivian President Evo Morales Wednesday called on industrialized nations to pay many billions of dollars in climate-change "reparations" to developing nations for the environmental impact of decades of pollution.

Railing against the U.S. and other rich nations, Morales told reporters that he was also formally calling for the United Nations to create a "climate justice tribunal" to prosecute nations that don't do enough to mitigate pollution.

Morales, formerly a union leader known for his outbursts against capitalism, said the lack of funding industrialized states had proposed to assist developing states cope with the effects of climate change was "shameful."

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