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On the bright side, attendance is limited, reducing the carbon footprint from all those fossil fueled jets

Pacific nations take centre stage at ‘pre-COP’ climate summit

The South Pacific is among the most vulnerable regions in the world to global warming — from rising sea waters jeopardizing homes to increasing temperatures causing coral bleaching.

This week’s talks in Nadi and on the atoll nation of Tuvalu are a precursor to the larger UN-sponsored global climate summit — known as COP31 — to be held next month in Turkey.

Pacific leaders are pushing for the world to stick to a target of limiting global warming to 1.5C, enhance access to climate finance and give more attention to the impact on oceans.

“Our prime minister will carry three clear messages to the leaders this week: keep 1.5 degrees within reach, make finance reach the communities that need it and give the ocean its rightful place in the climate regime,” Fiji’s climate minister Lynda Tabuya told the opening ceremony.

Sea levels are rising at a record pace, driven by warming oceans and glacier melt, according to a UN report.

Yeah, the actual data shows that sea levels are not doing that, as I’ve shown time and time again

It also highlighted a financing gap, with developing countries needing $310-$365 billion to adapt, yet having only $26 billion in adaptation finance available in 2023.

And that is what all this is about: free money with zero strings attached, because developed countries “owe them”.

But officials have been forced to concede that the guest list will be smaller than they had hoped.

Fewer than a dozen world leaders have publicly confirmed that they will attend.

On the streets of Nadi, most locals seemed unaware that a global summit was even taking place.

Well, yeah, because so much of that climate scam money never gets used the way it’s supposed to be used. Instead it disappears into the pockets of politicians, friends, family, and NGOs.