GLASGOW: Tuvalu, a country in Oceania’s minister has presented his speech in a video address to the United Nations climate summit standing in knee-deep seawater.
In the video address, Simon Kofe tells delegates that, “climate change and sea-level rises are deadly and existential risks for Tuvalu and low-lying atoll nations. We are sinking, but so is everyone else.”
He further stated, “And no matter if we feel the effects today, like Tuvalu, or in a hundred years we will all still feel the dire effects of this global crisis.”
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While demanding other countries to set global gas emission at net-zero by mid-century, he said, “We are demanding that global net-zero be secured by mid-century, that 1.5 degrees be kept within reach, that urgently needed climate finance be mobilized to address loss and damage.”
Kofe further mentioned, “We are looking for the world to get its act together.” Meanwhile, according to new projections by UN, global sea levels could rise by two meters or 6.5 feet and displace tens of millions of people by the end of the century.
An abundance in the rise of temperature can be proved with the world’s largest iceberg breaking off in Antarctica in June 2021. Which is known as iceberg A-7 calved, it measures around 170 kilometers long and 25 kilometers wide.
