SAMOA, March 19 - Samoa PM urges world to save Pacific people from climate crisis obliteration Fiame Naomi Mata’afa pleads for action before landmark IPCC report is expected to issue ‘final warning’The world must step back from the brink of climate disaster to save the people of the Pacific from obliteration, the prime minister of Samoa has urged. “There are already examples in the Pacific of communities, whole communities, that have relocated to different countries,” she said. It seems more immediate for us [in the Pacific] but it’s still impacting all of us.”On Monday, the IPCC will produce the final summary of its latest appraisal of global climate science. This final report, called the synthesis report, will summarise the previous warnings and present them to global governments. Even now, at 1.1C, climate impacts are deadly.”Alok Sharma, the president of the Cop26 UN climate summit in 2021, said governments must respond.

Source: The Guardian March 20, 2023 02:19 UTC