“Climate emergency is intensifying, we are on the front lines,” Mohamed Nasheed, the president of the Maldives, said.YOUR VIDEO BEGINS IN:00:15TAP TO UNMUTE
Aug. 10, 2021, 5:28 AM PDTByPatrick Smith
Island nations across the world are warning that they face catastrophic consequences of rising sea levels and possible extinction, after a landmarkU.N. report warnedof the effects of a warming world.
An alliance of 39 coastal and low-lying nations said theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reportwas a “major alert for the world” and called on more powerful countries to do all they can to keep global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius to “save lives and livelihoods.”
“We have to turn this around,” Diann Black-Layne, the lead negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island States, said ina statementMonday after the IPCC report was released.
“The IPCC confirms the experience of…
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