The prime minister of Samoa, Fiame Naomi Mata’afa has urged the world to step back from the brink of climate disaster to save the people of the Pacific from obliteration.
Mata’afa made the call on the eve of a landmark report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is expected to deliver a scientific “final warning” on the climate emergency.
In her words, “We’re all impacted, but the degree of the impact is in the particular circumstance of countries. So our low-lying atoll countries, it’s right there, we’re living with it.
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“There are already examples in the Pacific of communities, whole communities, that have relocated to different countries.
“They’re really having to address issues of sovereignty through loss of land.”
Mata’afa cautioned that if no action was taken right away, the devastation would spread to all nations.
Story was adapted from The Guardian
