全球環境組織世界自然基金會（WWF）28日坦誠地對沙烏地阿拉伯道歉。基金會一名員工在國際氣候變遷會議拍下並散播冒犯沙國官方名牌的照片。
基金會已經開除該名員工，他承認是他一人所為。
這個事件發生在6月9日、10日夜間、聯合國氣候變化綱要公約（UMFCCC）在波昂舉辦為期2週的會議尾聲。
該名基金會員工從會議桌拿走沙國的名牌，破壞它並丟進馬桶，然後照相。這張傳單特寫照片在會議中四處發散。
沙國是全球最大產油國，小島國家要求更進一步研究氣候變遷的效應，例如海平面上升。此次事件發生在沙國阻止這個要求之後。
這些傳單嚴重冒犯沙國政府也同時污辱大會，沙國要求調查。
「在代表大會以及WWF的準則下，這事件完全令人無法接受。」WWF總會執行長吉姆李波（Jim Leape）說。「我們已經正式跟UNFCCC以及沙國正式道歉。」
WWF發言人拒絕透露該員工姓名。
「我們對於此次冒犯事件深深感到抱歉，也譴責這種行為，我們責無旁貸。」李波說。「我們會盡一切努力，確保這種事情不再發生。」
The global environment organization WWF today apologized "unreservedly" for the actions of an employee who took offensive photographs of the official nameplate of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and distributed them at an international climate change meeting.
WWF has fired the man, who admitted sole responsibility for the incident.
The episode took place over the night of June 9-10, near the end of a two-week meeting of parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, in Bonn.
The employee of WWF-UK took the black and white nameplate of Saudi Arabia from a conference table, broke it, and photographed it in a toilet bowl. That photo was a feature of leaflets distributed around the conference.
The incident occurred after Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer, blocked a request by small island states for further studies into the effects of climate change, such as sea level rise.
The leaflets were gravely offensive to the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which called for an investigation, and to the meeting as a whole.
"The incident was completely unacceptable under the standards of the Convention and the standards of WWF," said WWF International Director General Jim Leape today. "We have apologized formally to the UNFCCC and the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
A WWF spokesman has declined to name the individual involved.
"We are deeply sorry for the offense caused by this incident, which we utterly condemn and cannot excuse," Leape said. "We are doing everything we can to ensure that nothing like this happens again."
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