“Climate change has arrived,” and the world must act. That’s the message from fifteen nations in the southwestern Pacific, who signed a statement yesterday calling on other countries to join them in “the urgent reduction and phase down of greenhouse gas pollution.”
The statement — called the Majuro Declaration For Climate Leadership — is the product of the 44th Pacific Islands Forum, an intergovernmental meeting of 16 member nations in the southwestern Pacific, which chose climate change as its theme this year. The Declaration was signed on September 5th by Australia, New Zealand, and 13 other Pacific Island nations, and will be presented to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon in an attempt to galvanize action for the next big international meeting on climate change in 2015.
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Source: Renew Economy