Pacific Island youth leaders say the stakes couldn't be higher at this year's United Nations climate summit. Even as Donald Trump threatens to pull out of the Paris climate agreement for a second time, world leaders meeting in Azerbaijan for COP29 have to decide on a new climate finance goal.
Pacific Island youth leaders say the stakes couldn't be higher at this year's United Nations climate summit. Even as Donald Trump threatens to pull out of the Paris climate agreement for a second time, world leaders meeting in Azerbaijan for COP29 have to decide on a new climate finance goal.
A key agenda item at this year's COP29 in Baku is determining a new climate finance target for the transfer funds from rich nations to developing nations to help reduce emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change.With less coming from the United States, reaching any goal will be harder to achieve.Mr Karoro says with the US stepping back, there is a real opportunity for other nations to step forward - and assume a strong climate leadership position.
"But if Australia and other countries that have given their commitment at the beginning, signing it off at Paris but are not keeping to their promise - then the system won't work. And to put it as climate finance, say 70 per cent of it to be a loan and 30 per cent as grant - that's injustice for the Pacific, when we are not doing a lot of pollution emitting, and we do not have coal mines that we open any time we want.
As President of the Rotaract Youth of Kiribati, her focus has been on mobilising and leading other youth to engage in climate adaptation projects. One option is to relocate to Australia as climate refugees under a bilateral treaty called the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union.
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