Rising sea levels are a looming disaster that risks hitting Pacific island nations particularly hard. This is the message from UN Secretary-General António Guterres at a summit of Pacific leaders: - I am in Tonga to issue a global SOS - Save our Seas - on rising sea levels.
At the forefront of climate change is Tonga – an island nation in the Pacific Ocean where rising sea levels, warmer waters and tropical cyclones pose an increasing threat. "The sea is everything to us. But it's on fire," the country's delegate Uili Lousi told TT [Tidningarnas Telegrambyra] at the climate summit