WATCH: Leaders from emerging economies and poorer countries criticized wealthy governments and oil companies for driving global warming, using speeches at Egypt's COP27 climate summit to demand they pay for damages being inflicted on their economies
Fears grow for jailed hunger striker in Egypt
"The oil and gas industry continues to earn almost 3 billion United States dollars daily in profits," said Gaston Browne, Antigua's prime minister, speaking at the conference on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States. Wealthy western countries tend to be the most vocal advocates of slashing emissions but are also the ones that have contributed the most greenhouse gases after more than a century of fossil fuel-driven industrialization.
But some countries at the conference were more likely to direct their frustration at rich governments, not drillers.
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