NIWA’s Pacific Rim manager and climate change expert Doug Ramsay said the Marshalls face a similar outlook to Pacific cousins Kiribati and Tuvalu: a potential worst-case scenario of mass relocations and abandonment as rising seas threaten their people’s livelihoods. Marshall Islands President and Pacific Islands Forum Chair Christopher Loeak said climate change is the greatest threat facing his country and many others — and he hoped the Majuro Declaration would be a “dynamic platform” for changing attitudes and policies in the region. The draft declaration, “recognizes the complete insufficiency of current efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and the responsibility of all to act urgently to phase-down GHG pollution.” It also, “calls on others to commit to be Climate Leaders by listing specific commitments, targets and actions that contribute more than previous efforts to the urgent phase-down of GHG pollution.” “Waiting for a new global agreement in 2015 will not be enough,” Loeak told the press. “Accelerating climate action now, and well before 2020, is critical. With global leaders scheduled to come together on climate change in September 2014, now is the time to build our new wave of climate leadership.” Loeak wrote a strongly worded letter to Secretary Kerry ahead of the forum. “If the U.S. is serious about rolling up its sleeves and renewing its global leadership on climate change, you will pivot to the Pacific and join us in Majuro,” he wrote. H reneweconomy.us4.list-manage/track/click?u=37a8faee990290c21229d89ff&id=e5e8e5ed8f&e=79c7bd34d3
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