"Developed Countries Want Us To Clean Their Mess" - Mugabe Hits Out At Climate Conference In France

Known for his outspokenness. Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has strongly criticised developed nations at the UN climate summit in Paris, accusing them of trying to shift the burden for curbing carbon emissions onto poor countries, the AFP news agency reports.



Mr Mugabe said developed nations were historically responsible for the "precarious climate environment we currently live in."

 "It is unconscionable that not only are developed countries miserly in providing the means" for developing countries, "but also want inordinately to burden us with cleaning up the mess they themselves have created," he told the gathering, AFP reports.