1 OCTOBER 2013
The President of the Marshall Islands presented the recently adopted Majuro Declaration on climate change to Ban Ki-moon as a “Pacific gift” at the UN General Assembly last week.
The Declaration was signed at the Pacific Islands Forum last month, where leaders from the region hoped to raise awareness of the urgency of the situation in the Marshall Islands in particular, where rising sea levels threaten to submerge the low lying land.
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Source: Responding to Climate Change