Heatwaves in the United Kingdom, vast forest fires in Canada and flash flooding in Nepal – the evidence of climate change is everywhere. And no region faces a more existential threat than the Pacific, where residents of low-lying nations are witnessing the seas creep higher.
On Monday, leaders and delegates from countries including Australia, Germany, Mexico and Thailand will meet in the Pacific nations of Fiji and Tuvalu. Their discussions aim to highlight the climate threats faced by small island nations and the need to rein in carbon emissions.
These meetings are a curtain-raiser for the annual United Nations climate summit known as COP31, being held in Turkey (also called Türkiye) in early November. It’s fairly unusual for a pre-COP meeting to take place in a different part of the world to the main UN summit.
Australia will jointly host and lead these Pacific climate meetings with Fiji, as part of a compromise deal struck at last year’s COP30. This deal will also see rival bidder Turkey host the UN summit in the city of Antalya in November…
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Source: The Conversation