Pacific island nations are in “grave danger” from rising sea levels and the world must “answer the SOS before it is too late”, the UN chief has warned during a visit to Tonga.
The UN secretary general, António Guterres, urged the world to “look to the Pacific and listen to the science” as he released two new reports on the sidelines of the Pacific Islands Forum, the region’s most important annual political gathering.
Sea-surface temperatures in the south-west Pacific have risen three times faster than the global average since 1980, according to a regional report compiled by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and released on Tuesday.
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In a second report published on Tuesday, the UN’s climate action team warned that the climate crisis and sea-level rise were “no longer distant threats”, especially for the Pacific’s small island developing states.
This is where a bunch of imperialist “owned” and controlled islands find out how much the imperialists actually care about their people, aside from wringing profit from them and their resources. Also, til only 2.5% of the Earth’s water is fresh and just over a third is accessible to humans. https://www.watermedia.org/how-much-fresh-water-is-on-the-earth
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