Landlocked nations agree to form a new climate negotiating bloc [SOUND]

# Landlocked countries have agreed to form a new climate negotiating bloc to advocate for the unique needs of nations without direct access to the sea. This was reached at the Third UN Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries, currently underway in Awaza, Turkmenistan. The UN’s Natalia Alonso Cano says that although landlocked developing countries account for approximately 12-percent of the world’s land surface, they have experienced nearly 20-percent of the world’s droughts and landslides over the past decade: