Johannesburg — The North should pay reparations to the South for the effects of climate change.

This is the position of Professor Patrick Bond arguing the case for ecological compensation that he believes the North owes to the South for causing climate change. Prof. Bond was speaking at the Climate Change meeting hosted by EJN, in May 2010. He told IPS that, "once a climate obligation debt is established, it's a simple question of how the funds should be delivered". Bond is director of the University of Kwazulu Natal's Centre for Civic Society (CCS) in Durban, South Africa.

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