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Article: United States : Climate change threatens Cayman.
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- September 26, 2009
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The eyes of the world will centre on Copenhagen in December when the United Nations conference on climate change takes place.
The goal of the conference is to come up with a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, a treaty limiting carbon emissions.
Cayman s National Weather Service Director Fred Sambula isn t likely to be at COP 15, as the Copenhagen conference is called, but he knows what s at stake.
Climate change is the next big thing that will affect humanity and its survival, he said. Climate change is upon us and it s little island nations like the Cayman Islands that are going to be affected the most, even though we contribute carbon ...