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Pasisi

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  1. “We must keep regularly apprised of the manifestations of sea level rise and climate change impacts by combining United Nations efforts with those of other institutions, undertaking site-specific risk assessments and developing appropriate responses. We must go and meet in those places to fully appreciate the situation first-hand. We should give voice to the most vulnerable, in particular women, girls and children, who are disproportionately impacted. That will help to inform our pre-emptive and proactive ability in order to cauterize as much of the potential insecurity and unrest before it becomes so great an issue that none of us can effectively respond.”

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

  2. “I do not think we have enough time to do justice to that question today, but a great start would be to acknowledge and advocate to stop greenhouse gas emissions, targeting the root cause of the multiplicity of complex security threats. In addition, we must support the efforts of the regions and countries most at risk to secure their jurisdictional space on the planet and the certainty of their existence as States into the future. We must develop and implement an ambitious policy on greening the practices of the United Nations and its key bodies and stakeholders in the field. Wars are costly, not just to people and nations but also to the stability of our planet.”

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

  3. “In many ways, the Council has the greatest mandate and reason to address the issue, because the fall-out of failing to do so will fall directly into its remit of response. In our region, the increasing demand for concurrent law- and-order and defence responses is already straining preparedness and response capabilities. And that is happening not only in developing countries — New Zealand just declared a national state of emergency because of the impact of consecutive extreme weather events that hit the country in a very short span of time. That is becoming an all-too-common occurrence across the world and is especially devasting to those least able to cope and respond. What are the solutions?”

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

  4. “While we can do our best to adapt with the limited resources we have, we continue to suffer loss and damage and fear for the future of our children. Despite that, SIDS remain resolute and among the most ambitious to lead by example and their young people defy being written off as the orphans of climate change. They are pushing for greater accountability of our generation to the next, whether we sit on a beach or in a glass tower. Intergenerational equity is a responsibility we must all carry and one at the heart of the Security Council’s mandate. What then is the role of the Security Council in acting to address the threat of sea level rise and climate change to the security and peace of the world?”

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

  5. “An ongoing climate security project funded by the Secretary- General’s Peacebuilding Fund in the Pacific is assessing the security threat to our lowest-lying atoll nations as those on the front lines where the impacts of sea-level rise and climate change are concerned. At the top of the fears voiced so far are food and water security, coastal erosion and land security, as well as their disproportionate impact on women, girls and children. There are also unique non-economic impacts, and in many ways they are the most concerning. A nation can be at war and its people still have hope and determination to survive. The war against climate change is quite different. The opponent is much larger and amorphous, and the ability to stop it is outside of our direct control.”

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

  6. “Coral reefs are bleaching, causing irreparable damage and affecting the vital food sources, livelihoods and cultural fabric of coastal communities and countries. Seawater is seeping into delicate groundwater systems and threatening to salinate drinking water and arable lands. The traditional knowledge and practices of indigenous peoples, who constitute the vast majority of Pacific island populations, are being lost, as the natural resources to which they are tied are being eroded by sea level rise and the effects of climate change. The early findings of the Pacific Security Outlook Report 2022–2023 reaffirm the complexity of those security implications for our region.”

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

  7. “As the Secretary- General noted last month, it is an opportunity for the International Court of Justice to examine the conduct that has led the world to the brink of collapse and threatens the very existence of countries, peoples and cultures, as well as the human rights of individuals around the world. It is a critical piece of work for upholding our responsibility to do our best to ensure intergenerational equity. Let me now turn to the realities of the insecurity already happening in the most vulnerable countries and communities. Long before land goes under water, it will become so degraded that it cannot support human life and the complex and critical ecosystems it once did. That is already manifesting itself across SIDS and coastal States.”

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

  8. “Thirdly, late last year, the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent was endorsed by the Pacific Island Forum leaders. The strategy reinforces commitment and working together as a collective for advancing Pacific regionalism based on the Blue Pacific narrative — an approach that fully appreciates the threat of climate change to our security as a region, nations, communities and individuals. Fourthly, we hope that next month, as championed by the Government and people of Vanuatu and supported by all Pacific nations and a growing number of countries at the United Nations, the General Assembly will adopt a draft resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on the obligations of States with regard to climate change.”

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

  9. “It elevates climate change as the single greatest threat to the livelihoods, security and well-being of the peoples of the Pacific. Secondly, in 2021, the Declaration on Preserving Maritime Zones in the face of Climate Change-related Sea-level Rise was issued, followed by efforts by individual nations to reinforce it in sovereign law and policy. The Declaration is our region’s good-faith interpretation of UNCLOS, noting that the relationship between climate-change-related sea level rise and maritime zones was not foreseen or considered by the drafters of UNCLOS at the time. It is critically important that the international community, the United Nations system and Member States support that declaration and the efforts of individual island nations to secure their statehood.”

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

  10. “It is now threatened with being torn apart by the effects of sea level rise and climate change, something that will only be exacerbated by the uncertainty of jurisdiction, as law remains ambiguous about the impacts of sea level rise on the base points by which exclusive economic zones are measured and fixed. It is also being exacerbated by impunity and the continued flouting of responsibility with regard to the failure to act to stop climate change, despite clear evidence of the existential threat it poses to many States, communities and the human rights of individuals the world over. It is a security issue of paramount importance to the Pacific region and its nations, and it is why Pacific leaders have developed the following critical declarations. First, in 2018, the Boe Declaration on Regional Security was adopted.”

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

  11. “For many SIDS, that reality is already upon our shores, and for some it has already washed them away. But how serious is the threat of sea level rise and climate change to the statehood and security of SIDS? The certainty of jurisdiction is what enables law and order and supports the upholding of peace and security. It is well understood how much conflict can arise from ambiguity surrounding which islands belong to which nations and the boundaries defining that in the sea. The Blue Pacific continent is well known as a quilt of geopolitical interests, forged through both world wars, patchworked via the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and coloured by globalization.”

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

  12. “Of course, there are many other scary projections as well, but due to those I have just mentioned alone, sea level rise and the impacts of climate change present a direct security threat and a threat multiplier to individuals, communities, provinces, nations and certainly to our region — the Blue Pacific continent — as a whole. Regardless of whether that is acknowledged by any international body or individual State, it does not change that fact. A threat to one’s security is best defined through the lens of those who are affected, not those who continue to be most responsible for its cause. The point at which the threat of sea level rise and climate change becomes so severe that it is deemed a threat to the peace and security of every country in the world is only a matter of time and scale.”

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

  13. “Ms. Pasisi: It is a privilege to be present at this very important debate on sea level rise and the implications for international peace and security. Let me also thank the Government of Malta for inviting me to brief the Council from the perspective of a civil-society organization. My experience is heavily informed from a small island developing State (SIDS) lens, particularly that of the Pacific islands, where I was born, have worked and lived my entire life, and intend to do so for its remainder. By 2050, within the lifetimes of our children and grandchildren, sea level rise will have exceeded at least one metre for most SIDS, and that will last for thousands of years. In addition, the extreme sea level events that currently occur once in a century will be experienced every single year.”

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