Pacific Islanders and environmentalists are urging Australia and other nations to back a push for better enforcement of the Paris Agreement to limit global warming, ahead of the Pacific Islands Forum.
Pacific Islands students and environmentalists are sailing on a flotilla to call for better enforcement of the Paris deal to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius .Pacific Islander youths and environmental campaigners have gathered in Fiji to amplify calls for measures to enforce the Paris Agreement to limit global warming, ahead of next week's Pacific Islands Forum.
"It would allow the peoples of the Pacific, who are experiencing the worst of the climate crisis, to affect broad, accelerated change. This is an idea whose time has come and we call on world leaders to step up and support it.""It would mean we could better enforce the Paris Climate Agreement, and by ensuring human rights is at the fore of all climate responses.
Amnesty International Australia campaigner Rose Kulak said there is a need for greater urgency to limit the impacts of climate change on the most vulnerable nations.
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