9 DECEMBER 2015
7 December, 2015, Paris, France, COP21 - Tonga is fully behind the Pacific Island position of a lower than 1.5 degree Celsius temperature rise target and a stand-alone loss and damage mechanism in the proposed Paris Agreement on climate change, says The Island Kingdom’s Deputy Prime Minister and his government’s head of delegation to COP21, Hon. Siaosi Sovaleni.
In an in interview at the margins of COP21 negotiations for a new global agreement on climate change that enters its second and final week today, Deputy PM Sovaleni said any temperature increase above 1.5 degrees will severely impact the island kingdom.
Source: SPREP