(L to R) Members of anty-poverty group Oxfam wearing masks of world leaders US President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spain's Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi move paper money from an aid money box to a climate money box on November 5, 2009, in Barcelona. Some 180 countries hold climate talks during the Barcelona Climate Change Talks before December's Copenhagen conference tasked with tackling the threat of global warming. Getty Images logo Getty Images 27 months ago

(L to R) Members of anty-poverty group Oxfam wearing masks of world leaders US President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spain's Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi move paper money from an aid money box to a climate money box on November 5, 2009, in Barcelona. Some 180 countries hold climate talks during the Barcelona Climate Change Talks before December's Copenhagen conference tasked with tackling the threat of global warming.

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