| Dear world leaders at the COP,
Climate change is drowning the Pacific Islands.
The world's addiction to oil, gas and coal threatens to swallow our lands under the warming seas – inch by inch.
But we will not stand by as our home is wiped from the map!
So we're uniting with a hundred Nobel laureates and thousands of scientists worldwide to urge world leaders to join the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to manage a just transition away from fossil fuels.
The time has come to make peace with the planet. To deliver vulnerable nations the long overdue funding needed to cope with the loss and damage incurred from climate disasters and to make polluters pay.
They say that one day, the oceans will swallow the place we call home. But I promise you this: until that day comes, we will keep fighting.
Because if we can save our islands, we can save the world.
Tuvalu mo te Atua
Kausea Natano
Prime Minister of Tuvalu |
