13 DECEMBER 2015
8 December 2015, Paris, France, COP21 - Minister of Climate Change in Vanuatu Jerome Ludvaune took to the podium at the COP21 talks in Paris today to ask the leaders of the world to draw a line at a temperature rise target of ...well below 1.5 degrees Celsius.
At this level, the risks that climate change poses to the very survival of Vanuatu are minimised, said Miniser Ludvaune.
“Vanuatu is still recovering from nation-wide suffering and devastation inflicted by severe category 5 Cyclone Pam, now exacerbated by the drought induced by the strongest ever El Nino event. Human lives, the lives of my people have been lost.”
Source: SPREP