Climate still Pacific’s biggest security threat, retired leaders say | perkinsmiki
Climate change should be recognised as the Pacific region’s primary security threat as low-lying islands face the prospect of annihilation from rising sea levels, says a coalition of former Pacific heads of state ahead of a key regional forum next week.
“We emphasise that working together in driving global climate action is key to Pacific security,” the group said in a statement. The coalition includes former Pacific heads of state or ministers such as Enele Sopoaga, the former prime minister of Tuvalu, Anote Tong, the former president of the Kiribati, and Hilda Heine, the former president of the Marshall Islands.
The former leaders have welcomed more ambitious climate policy from the newly elected Australian government, including a strengthened pledge to cut emissions by 43 per cent on 2005 levels by 2030 and a review of Australia’s troubled carbon offset scheme. Sea level rise is a huge threat to the Pacific. Mean sea level rose by around 20 centimetres between 1901 and 2018 and the rate of sea level rise has been accelerating since the 1990s, with almost half of the rise in global average sea levels occurring since 1993.
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