This is Esau Sinnok & Itinterunga Rae Bainteiti from the island's of Shishmaref in the Arctic and Kiribati in the Pacific. They live at different latitudes and very different temperatures, but they share a similar community based lifestyle.
Kya Raina Lal: Opinion: Pacific Leaders Draw Line in the Sand
Today our COP21 delegate Kya Lal was published by The Verb on the current negotiating positions of the Pacific AOSIS bloc.
Hamish Laing: State of affairs
We are now into the last week of the climate talks and the clock is ticking fast. Although the nominal deadline for the talks is 6pm Friday this appears pretty unlikely at this stage and the goodwill and optimism shown by the parties doesn't exactly transfer into speedy progress. All parties still seem confident for an agreement, but how strong this agreement will be remains to be seen.
Mattea Mrkusic appears on Al Jazeera's The Stream
Mattea Mrkusic had a comment featured on a recent Al Jazeera Stream episode discussing climate change in the Pacific Islands.
Mattea Mrkusic: Opinion: Pacific Voices on Climate Displacement
We’re bleary-eyed, brandishing banners in the early morning light. Rae Bainteiti, a 25-year-old youth delegate from the Pacific island nation of Kiribati, jokes that this might be the first and last winter he’ll wear a puffer jacket in the Parisian cold. Stepping towards the press encircling our demonstration, he addresses the crowd in a suddenly serious tone. “Our lives,” he says, “are not negotiable.” As true as that may be, in the plenary rooms beyond, ministers are putting brackets around his future.
Kya Raina Lal and Mattea Mrkusic: Opinion: The Pacific, Climate Change and Displacement
Our COP21 delegates Kya Raina Lal and Mattea Mrkusic recently spoke to Veronika Meduna from RNZ, heres what they had to say. This post originally appeared on The Wireless.
Kya Raina Lal: Opinion: Finding A Home for 10 Million People
Today our COP21 delegte Kya Lal was published by The Verb on Climate displacement in the Pacific.
Simon Hillier: COP two one week one: musings from the outside
Part one of COP21 is over. I am only accredited to enter the conference starting tomorrow, but even on the outside it has been a hectic week. Today (Sunday) brings a brief pause in the negotiations, so it was nice to have some space to breathe and collect my thoughts.