Developing Nations Scramble For Aid As Carbon Emissions Regulations Are Deferred Until 2015

The Doha climate talks in Qatar have hit several substantial roadblocks, as poor and developing countries clash with flourishing states in a scramble for disaster relief funds and strict carbon emissions regulations. Yet, final decisions on these emissions have been deferred until 2015, and the international community has yet to reach a consensus on how to tackle rising global temperatures.

In an interview with BBC, Lebanese youth campaigner Wael Hmaidan of the Climate Action Network, suggests that Qatar has no provided sufficient leadership in the negotiation process.

"Arab nations haven't yet made decisions on [climate change initiatives]. the Qatari presidency really needs to get a grip of this process."

Alden Meyers of the Union of Concerned Scientists argues that Doha is "becoming the last straw for the small island states, the least develop[ed] countries. Seasoned negotiators are coming out of that room in tears, very emotional. They are starting to say what are we doing here? What is the point of these negotiations."

Director of the Asia/Pacific branch of the news organization NGO Lidy Nacpil confesses, "We cannot go back to our countries and tell them that we allowed this to happen, that we condemned our own future. We cannot go back to the Philippines, to our dead, to our homeless, to our outrage, and tell them that we accepted this."

Mohammad Chowdhury, of the Least Developed Countries coalition, adds: "We are facing day in and day out the adverse effects of climate change. Nobody is nearby to rescue them. You see President Obama asking for huge funding for Hurricane Sandy ... But we won't get that scale and magnitude of support."