The Pacific area contributes simply 0.02 per cent of worldwide carbon emissions, he famous.
“But you might be on the entrance strains of the local weather disaster, coping with excessive climate occasions from raging tropical cyclones to file ocean heatwaves,” the UN Secretary-Common continued.
“Sea ranges are rising even sooner than the worldwide common, posing an existential menace to hundreds of thousands of Pacific Islanders,” he added.
“Persons are struggling. Economies are being shattered. And full territories face annihilation.”
Guterres urged richer nations to reside as much as their commitments to assist pay for the results of local weather change in creating nations.