'Fossil' award to Japan for moves worsening global warming

LIMA, Peru - Members of the Climate Action Network gives Japan a "Fossil of the Day" award during a U.N. conference on climate change in Lima on Dec. 2, 2014, for "funding coal and gas power stations in developing countries, in particular Indonesia, with money meant for scaling up climate action."

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