Tuvalu and the Cook Islands have both pledged to supply 100 percent of their countries’ energy by 2020. Paupa New Guinea has pledged to become carbon neutral before 2050. The Marshall Islands has pledged a 40 percent reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions—below 2009 levels—and 20 percent indigenous renewable energy by 2020. Leaders from some of the world’s most vulnerable climate countries have adopted the Majuro Declaration calling for a “new wave of climate leadership” and marking the region’s efforts to accelerate action. Issued at this year’s Pacific Islands Forum, which took place on the Marshall Islands, the declaration calls on countries to list specific, concrete pledges to reduce emissions and aims to accelerate the global response to the climate crisis. The Pacific islands represent many of the countries most at risk by climate change, and they used the latest summit highlight the threats it places on security, livelihoods and the well-being of their populations, as well as those of other vulnerable nations across the globe. Also signed by Australia and New Zealand, the declaration highlights the region’s own commitment to tackling climate change. vimeo/71495427 ecowatch/2013/pacific-island-adopt-climate-policy/
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