1 NOVEMBER 2015
Tony de Brum, the foreign minister of the Marshall Islands, was supposed to be at an international conference in Morocco this month, lobbying his counterparts for an ambitious climate change deal.
But he was trapped on his small Pacific Ocean island by torrential downpours, gale force winds and massive swells — the kind of extreme weather that de Brum blamed on global warming. “My own home is under climate attack,” he wrote to his fellow negotiators on a climate pact up for consideration at a December summit in Paris. “My children and grandchildren have been going to bed in fear.”
Source: Politico