Climate crisis in the Pacific, "just another issue" for the big emitters ^Featured

Kosi Latu says "the moment" to commit to doing more to tackle climate change was lost.

"For us, it's a crisis now, it's not just an issue, it's a serious crisis, and sadly the big emitters don't talk about it as a crisis," he said.

Meanwhile, the Deputy Prime Minister of Cook Islands, Mark Brown, is calling for a complete overhaul of climate resilience funding, so that countries most at risk from climate change aren't made to suffer anymore.

In particular, he's calling for interest-free loans to be made available to small island states with a payback period of up to 100 years.

- ABC