Ramos-Horta on Timor-Leste using fossil fuels: 'Please don't lecture me'

The president of Timor-Leste, José Ramos-Horta, has hit back at a question over the negative climate outcomes of the Greater Sunrise gas project.
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He said the US, Europeans and Australia 'were the ones who polluted the whole world with coal, with oil and everything that you can imagine'. Ramos-Horta then said that if developed countries give Timor-Leste $100bn, they will 'give up on the Greater Sunrise development ... other than that, please don’t lecture me'.
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