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  1. “Last year, at an event on the sidelines of the seventy-seventh session of the General Assembly, Prime Minister Natano and President Kabua of the Marshall Islands launched the Rising Nations Initiative to fill the current gaps in awareness, the legal framework and political commitment and bring the international community together to support our push for a global solution. I therefore count on everybody’s support in taking action now. We cannot wait any longer.”

    2023-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9260Resumption1 (2023) · source

  2. “Pasisi, Director of Climate Change of the Pacific Community, said so eloquently this morning, any solution must be jointly created and enacted with the peoples and Governments of island nations, not visited upon us by others. To achieve that, we urgently need a global dialogue that acknowledges the realities and rights of the States Members of the United Nations that face an existential threat from rising sea level. Tuvalu and other countries are already taking important steps. The Pacific islands are pressing for action in international legal forums and processes. We initiated the Future Now project in 2021 to take a proactive stance for Tuvalu amid climate change.”

    2023-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9260Resumption1 (2023) · source

  3. “This morning, we heard speaker after speaker raising the threat posed by rising sea level and asking what should be done. The Secretary-General also asked for innovative legal and practical solutions to address its impact on the very existence of the land territory of some countries. Let me put forward Tuvalu’s views on what is needed, as outlined by my Prime Minister, the Honourable Kausea Natano. Apart from the urgent efforts to address such issues within climate change mitigation and adaptation, we need a global settlement that guarantees nation States, such as mine, a permanent existence beyond the inhabitable life of our actual homes — one that recognizes and protects our cultural integrity, our human and economic capital and our sovereignty. As our briefer Ms.”

    2023-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9260Resumption1 (2023) · source

  4. “Rising sea water has penetrated and contaminated our groundwaters, causing crops and vegetation to die. We are losing precious coral, which supports the marine life that provides our daily protein consumption and ensures our overall food security. Higher tides are increasing the intensity of the storms that we face, devastating our homes and fields. Our young people and families are being forced to move, with some leaving and our communities drifting apart. That is today, and the situation is only going to get worse. Tuvalu and our Pacific brothers and sisters have been raising alarm bells in international forums for several years now. We are deeply grateful for the support of many countries, the representatives of some of which spoke today on this critical topic, which is a serious security concern for us.”

    2023-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9260Resumption1 (2023) · source

  5. “We are facing the complete inundation of our land by seawater. The Charter of the United Nations and our current international system are founded on the fundamental principles of territorial integrity. Yet, for us, that is being eroded on an epic scale. How are our people to preserve their heritage, culture and rights? What obligations are owed towards our protection and the safeguarding of our sovereignty? We are not contributing at all to the current climate crisis. The Pacific islands, as a whole, account for less than 0.03 per cent of the world’s current total carbon emissions, far less in terms of historical emissions. Yet we are the ones at the forefront of the impending climate disaster. We are already facing the terrible consequences of sea level rise.”

    2023-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9260Resumption1 (2023) · source

  6. “Let me first thank the briefers for their statements. I also thank Malta for having convened this open debate. I stand here today as a living reminder that the issues being discussed are central to the lives and livelihoods of my people. The impacts of sea level rise, its implications and its consequences are not just ideas or statistics that are read out in statements. For Tuvalu and many of our fellow small islands and developing countries, those are the realities that we face every day. For us, the threats that sea level rise represent to our sovereignty and statehood are not hypothetical. The extensional threat that we face is real. It is forecast that this century, several Pacific island nations, including my own, Tuvalu, will lose considerable territory to the rising sea level, with some becoming completely uninhabitable.”

    2023-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9260Resumption1 (2023) · source