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As climate-induced disasters continue to devastate the Global South, nations are steadily mounting pressure at the United Nations for wealthier countries to deliver on long-promised climate reparations through the Loss and Damage Fund.
#COP30 #ClimateChange #Finance #IslandNations #IndigenousRights
https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/09/loss-and-damage-at-cop30-indigenous-leaders-challenge-top-down-finance-models/
Loss and Damage at COP30: Indigenous Leaders Challenge Top-Down Finance Models

Indigenous activists continue to fight for a seat at the table in solving climate change, asking for self-determination and financial agency.

Inter Press Service
Small island nations face climate-induced ‘catastrophe’, warn experts

First comprehensive study on health and climate change in small island developing states lays bare impact of the crisis and calls for action from richer countries

The Guardian
Extreme Weather has already cost Vulnerable Island Nations $141 Billion

Emily Wilkinson, ODI Global; Ilan Noy, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Matt Bishop, University of Sheffield, and Vikrant Panwar, ODI Global (The Conversation) - Two years ago, when the curtain fell on the COP27 summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, developing nations on the frontline of climate change had something meaningful to celebrate. The creation of a new fund for responding to loss and damage was agreed after a hard-fought diplomatic effort, spearheaded by a group of small island developing states (sometimes known as the Sids). The fund would provide much needed support for climate-vulnerable nations faced

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Extreme weather already cost vulnerable island nations US$141 billion—and 38% is attributable to climate change

Two years ago, when the curtain fell on the COP27 summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, developing nations on the frontline of climate change had something meaningful to celebrate.

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meanwhile, NASA is predicting Pacific Island states will see **at least 15 centimetres of sea-level rise in the next 30 years**, and it's unavoidable because of damage already done to Earth's climate: https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/529117/nasa-predicts-15cm-of-sea-level-rise-for-pacific-islands-in-the-next-30-years #Pasifika #IslandNations #ClimateChange
NASA predicts 15cm of sea-level rise for Pacific Islands in the next 30 years

NASA also said this amount of rise will occur regardless of whether greenhouse gas emissions change in the coming years.

RNZ
The Alliance of Small Island States, including states in the Pacific Ocean, has issued a declaration on sea-level rise and statehood as world leaders convene in New York for the High-Level Meeting on Sea Level Rise.
The Declaration states that consistent with international law, countries will retain their statehood, sovereignty, and UN membership, regardless of the course of sea level rise. https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/529083/countries-declare-statehood-will-not-be-lost-regardless-of-climate-impacts #Pasifika #IslandNations #ClimateChange 🌊
Countries declare statehood will not be lost regardless of climate impacts

"Our states, maritime zones, and rights remain intact under international law, no matter the rising seas; we are here to stay."

RNZ
@yaohsi For the nations in close vicinity of China, the CCP is indeed behaving like a terrible bully. But, for the distant island nations in the Pacific - that have been completely plundered by foreign interests - China is a savior. It’s all relative. #nauru #islandnations https://youtu.be/eUJgq9HerDQ?feature=shared
Visiting the Fattest, Most Cigarette-Addicted and Least Visited Country 🇳🇷

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Insult to those nations among most vulnerable to the #ClimateCrisis to have not been part of this. Maybe deliberate to be able to push through the agreement?: Small island states 'weren't in room' when deal agreed #ClimateCrisis #COP28 #IslandNations https://bbc.com/news/av/world-67701412
Small island states 'weren't in room' when deal agreed

Samoa says they are "a little confused" by agreement of COP28 climate deal while they were absent from room.

This interesting research might spawn another post-apocalyptic novel on the lines of On The Beach (Nevil Shute 1957).
Writers?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/risa.14072
#Pacific #islandnations