40 Nations Meet On Majuro To Discuss Climate Change Impacts RMI hopes Cartagena Dialogue will build momentum for UN action 40 Nations Meet On Majuro To Discuss Climate Change Impacts RMI hopes Cartagena Dialogue will build momentum for UN action MAJURO, Marshall Islands (Marianas Variety, April 3, 2014) – Ambassadors and climate negotiators from around the world will see the realities of climate change “on the ground” while meeting this week in Majuro, the country’s foreign minister said on the eve of the opening of the Cartagena Dialogue. The group representing about 40 nations is focused on increasing traction for a global climate treaty at its four-day conference that opens Tuesday in Majuro, a low-lying necklace of coral islands most of which rise less than a meter above sea level. Four weeks ago, high tides flooded parts of Majuro, the third inundation of the capital atoll in the last 12 months by tides that caused damage to homes and government facilities. “My low-lying atoll country is on the frontline of the battle against climate change,” said Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Tony deBrum on Monday. “In early March, we were hit by the highest king tides in more than 30 years, which displaced more than 1,000 people and forced our government to declare a state of emergency. “Even the most conservative scientific predictions suggest my country risks being wiped off the map by the end of this century,” deBrum said. To prevent this, the Marshall Islands has “put climate change at the top of our country’s political and diplomatic agenda, and we are determined to do what we can to ensure that we do not have to abandon our homes and our precious Marshallese culture and way of life,” deBrum said. Marshall Islands officials see the Cartagena Dialogue gathering in Majuro as an opportunity to gather momentum on the road to U.N. Secretary-General Ban-ki Moon’s Climate Leaders Summit this September in New York. (from Pacific Islands Report)
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 03:10:59 +0000
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