Pacific island nations, courted by China and the United States, put the superpowers on notice, telling the world’s two biggest carbon emitters to take more action on climate change while pledging unity in the face of a growing geopolitical contest. READ:
PACIFIC ISLANDS FORUM/FORUMSEC.ORGc island nations, courted by China and the United States, put the superpowers on notice, telling the world’s two biggest carbon emitters to take more action on climate change while pledging unity in the face of a growing geopolitical contest.
At the summit that ended on Thursday, leaders adopted language several members have used in declaring a climate emergency, saying this was supported not only by science but by people’s daily lives in the Pacific. “What matters most to us is we secure bold commitments from all countries at COP27 to phase out coal and other fossil fuels and step upnance to the most vulnerable nations and advance causes like ‘loss and damage’ that matter dearly to the most at-risk island communities,” Fiji’s President Frank Bainimarama told reporters.
In contrast to the market’s bullishness, leaders in the forum’s thatched-roof headquarters discussed how to deal with the statehood of people whose nation has sunk in rising seas, or rights toThe communique cites an urgent need for assistance on debt vulnerability and the rising cost of food amid the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.fiPacific leaders at times showed irritation at the global focus on the contest between the Washington and Beijing over their region.
Australian Strategic Policy Institute analyst Michael Shoebridge said Beijing has a record of “splintering regionalism,” drawing a parallel between its recent Pacic diplomacy and a platform it created a decade ago to engage with European countries and bypass the European Union.
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