Failure is not an option for the Pacific Islands

In Paris this week, on the cusp of the Un global summit on climate change, an event hosted by the Government of New Caledonia in Paris focused on Mobilising knowledge for better governance to face the challenges of climate change in the Pacific.

Pacific island challenges are made harder with the impacts of climate change. The island region which consists of 30,000 islands with three of the five lowest countries on earth is one of the most vulnerable regions on earth to the impacts of climate change.

This was made clear by Mr. David Sheppard, the Director-General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) who shared the calls from the Pacific islands as the world comes together to negotiate a global agreement to lower global warming and address the impacts of Climate Change.

"The Pacific islands are asking for a Legally Binding Agreement that has the most ambitious targets on the table, calling for global warming to be below 1.5 degrees above preindustrial levels," said Mr. Sheppard.

"Pacific island countries are also calling for Loss and Damage to be included in the agreement, separate from Adaptation." 

     

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