Pacific Nations Band Together to Call for Climate Change Action: CHOGM

Published on October 25, 2024

Tuvalu’s prime minister has told the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) meeting that planned the planned expansion of fossil fuel projects in nations such as Australia represented, for his country, a “death sentence” as climate change took centre stage in Apia, Samoa. The phrase had not been chosen lightly, said Prime Minister Feleti Teo, who warned that Pacific Islands countries “will not sit quietly and allow others to determine our fate.” His challenge comes as a new report from the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative reveals that, despite representing only 6 percent of the Commonwealth’s population, Australia, Canada, and the UK have been responsible for 60 percent of extraction emissions across Commonwealth countries since 1990....

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