COP26 Day 5: Voices from the Pacific \\ Climate Council

No region has more at stake here or has done more to shape the world’s response to the climate crisis than the Pacific. It was determined advocacy from Pacific Island Countries that ensured the Paris Agreement included the goal of limiting warming to 1.5°C. Knowing that warming beyond this limit was very likely a matter of survival for their communities, Pacific leaders stared down some of the world’s most powerful countries and eventually convinced everyone that limiting warming to 1.5°C had to be the goal.

Today we were lucky to talk to Kavita Naidu, a Fijian international human rights lawyer and board member at Greenpeace, and Maina Talia, the Secretary of the Tuvalu Climate Action Network and a member of the Tuvaluan delegation here in Glasgow, to gain a deeper understanding of the climate crisis and COP26 from a Pacific perspective.

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