In Bangkok, some 3,000 protesters demonstrated on Monday, calling on world leaders to take immediate and tougher action to fight global warming. Bangkok is hosting the last major negotiating round before the UN’s climate summit in Copenhagen in December. Protesters called on the United States and other developed nations to make steep cuts in emissions.

Jacques-chai Chomthongdi, Focus on the Global South: “The most important thing is that developed countries need to quickly cut emissions by 2020, by at least 40 percent of the level that they negotiated. If they don’t cut that down, everyone will be impacted. We need rich countries to cut emissions, and poor countries need a proper plan to encourage their people to adjust to live with that.”