Australian local weather motion should transcend ‘lifeline’ for Tuvalu

Meg Eager is director of the Pacific islands program on the Lowy Institute, a global coverage assume tank based mostly in Sydney.

Standing knee-deep in seawater, Simon Kofe, overseas minister of the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, demanded by video that delegates on the 2021 U.N. Local weather Change Convention take motion to avoid wasting his nation from “drowning.”