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Hi, sorry I don't speak. Oh,
you from the organization?

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I'll be making excuse today. Solomon.
Solomon. Ah, welcome. Thank you.

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Let me link you.

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On by here to Spear Backstage.

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I'll already give you your band wristband,
which gives you special powers to.

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Special powers. Yeah, stage.
Amazing. Do I go on there? Not yet.

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And is here.

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So comfort for my to take the world's
biggest problem to the world biggest

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port.

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Good afternoon, fellow change makers.

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It brings me great honor and privilege
to speak on behalf of the Global Youth

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and Civil Society Alliance who are
currently campaigning to take the world's

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biggest problem to the
world's highest court,

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the International Court of Justice.

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I would like to share with you a story,

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A story that would not have been possible
without a handful of young stubborn

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optimists from the Pacific
and around the world.

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I take you back in the classroom
of the University of South Pacific.

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For Vanuatu, climate change
is no longer theoretical.

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They are increasingly being pounded by
cycle while also planning to relocate

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dozens of villages away
from coastal areas.

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Scientists say that a global rise in
temperatures by one degree will happen in

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the next decade no matter
what efforts are undertaken.

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The island nations in the South Pacific
are responsible for less than a third of

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1% of global greenhouse gas conditions.

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The small island of Vanuatu suffered a
devastating cyclone earlier this year

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highlighting the fact that it's a country
that's whole existence is threatened

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by climate change.

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Good morning. Good
morning. Yes, yes it is.

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Sorry.

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Hello and welcome to today's society
program In the studio we have a very

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special guest from a pet series.

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Tell us about the Pacific Island
students fighting climate change.

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How did you come about and what
is your mission? As we know,

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the process of climate.

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Action globally is very slow and
the real political will is lacking,

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especially when it comes to the
negotiations with developing countries

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who are stubborn to find a compromise
with the developing countries in spite of

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the catastrophic impacts of climate
change everywhere and their obligations

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under international law.
If the science is correct,

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we only have about eight years to stop
this insane quest before we reach a point

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of no return. However, there is hope.

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A global solution will be born by a
handful of concerned students from the

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University of the South Pacific.

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You must stand up strong against the
climate crisis and work together to take

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the world's biggest problem to the
world's highest court. Thank you Tomas.

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For us, nature sort of
links us to our ancestors.

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Certain landmarks have a
spiritual connection to us

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and also where you come from or where
you are, it's your sense of identity.

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That's my grandma.

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Okay.

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Small exercise. Yeah.

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One small girl and small boy.

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Okay. Thank you.

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And four pizza

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before? No, before

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good. From weather all time

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tomorrow.

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It is like deja vu going
back to university.

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But now with.

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A lot more,

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it's like going to see a lecturer
to ask for extension today.

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I'm sorry I was sick over the weekend and

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may I have some extension please.

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Today it is a very special
session in many ways. One,

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you see new faces that we have here,

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Solomon Yo from Solomon,

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and we also have Vishal Pade here,

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the campaigner for this
organization, it's space here in suv,

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so the Pacific Island students
fighting climate change,

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they are here now to speak to us about
the role of this student focus group came

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out of us.

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It's history in the making and you are
part of that history and I'm hoping that

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I will sign all of you
up. Yeah. Now Solomon V,

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shall you take us through that.

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We really need to address climate change
from a human rights angle in a way that

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rights of a, sorry to say this,

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but rights of a German person living in
Germany and rights of a Solomon Island

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living in Solomon Islands is the same.

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My right to right to water should
be the same as this person.

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But the fact that you're seeing a
wall that is so unbalanced and broken,

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this is not happening.

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That we believe that through the advisory
opinion we can help address this.

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So now as I'm sure everyone's confused,

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everyone's wondering what
is the advisory opinion.

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We'll just take you
through that process. Now.

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International court of justice,

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it's the principle judicial organ
of the United Nation or as we

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also say the highest court in the
world. Through an advisor opinion,

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the court can highlight areas
of law that's saying that look,

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governments need to really step up their
game on ambitious actions that need to

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take around the world.

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Now how do we get an advisory opinion?

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It's essentially a very
state centered campaign.

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It needs the support of states
to take the matter to the ICJ.

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And so we're looking at the Pacific
Island Forum to endorse the campaign.

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And then from there we're looking at
building coalitions between other states,

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other non-state actors,
students, young people,

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universities and all of us
to come together so that
when the matter goes to the

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UN general assembly for a vote,
there is majority support.

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So that UN general assembly
is made up of close to 193

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plus I may be wrong states.

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And so we need 97 UN general
assembly member states to vote yes

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on the resolution and then it will be
delivered to the International Court of

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Justice.

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Back when I was a student in high school,

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we came across aspects of law and it
always fascinated me how it was able to

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affect some change on the ground.

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Floyd had this power to shape society

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and so to me the Pacific
really is paradise and there's

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value in our environment
and what's around us.

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But with the ocean coming in
land, people forced to relocate.

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So the seawater comes up till here.

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Seawater comes right to here.

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From the 2000 to now,

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now seawater reaches maybe 20,

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30 meters beyond this place.

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I just don't know.

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In few years time what
will be the look of this

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place when the seawater still

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going inside?

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My grandmother was born in 1928
from the story told by grandparents,

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we have more land beyond this area.
Before, while they were living here,

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this land was all main land

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because of sea level
rise, coastal erosion,

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everything that washed away all
this land. And if we go beyond,

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we're going to see a further
impact of climate change.

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So we ask the government if they can

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for us, this from the 1970s,

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this is the second one.

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So this was your house?

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Yeah, from the 2000.

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Our houses were half in,

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in the sea there. These were,
I brought up my children,

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I just said three.

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We are now in COP 26,

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but still we are asking the question

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when our voice will be
heard, who will hear us?

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The U-N-F-C-C stands for the
United Nations Framework Convention

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on Climate Change.

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It was a convention that was
signed by states regarding the

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threat that climate change
poses to our environment.

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And so part of that framework
was the COP meetings

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that we have every year. So COP
stands for the conference of parties.

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Bruce, this is unfair. Why do you get
high heels and I don't get high heels.

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Muscle high heels. What can men wear
high heels casually and not get judged?

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You have diplomats,

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you have high level persons from all over
the world come together in one place.

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And so the advisory opinion has to be
featured there because for this campaign

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to succeed, it needs the majority
votes at the UN General Assembly.

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Thank you sir. Thank you.
Thank you so much sir.

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Also talked about some of

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this movement began when students from
the University of South Pacific saw

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transformational change in international
climate law to protect the human

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rights.

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Reaching the International Code of
Justice is indeed a bureaucratic process.

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It involves lobbying at the United Nations
regional as well as national levels.

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Therefore mobilizing youth in various
regions to create external pressure from

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the governments will
be absolutely crucial.

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Tell me who you are,

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tell me where you're from and tell me
what you do and it says why you're atca.

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Sure. My name is Vishal
Prasad. I am from Fiji,

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the beautiful islands of Fiji in the
Pacific and I am a campaigner with the

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Pacific Island students
fighting climate change.

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That's a youth led organization that is
working to seek an advisory opinion from

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the International Court of Justice
and climate change and human rights.

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We're looking, if you can speak
with some of the youth from Canada.

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We're trying to do some networking.

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We're hoping to reach out to Canada
and you see they would be interested in

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speaking with the Pacific Island youth.

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Yeah, sure. I mean I can give you the
contact maybe That would be great.

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Give maybe a card. I can
kind of link you up by email.

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And then the final event is on the 11th
we have the Secretary General of the

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Commonwealth Pater Scotland.

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She'll be joining in with the
government and also Marshall Island

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government.

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Talks are continuing at Cop 26 in Glasgow
where negotiators have just missed the

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form of deadline to reach a deal to
avoid potentially catastrophic global

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warming.

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Another disappointing year. What's new?

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May I just say to all delegates,

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I apologize for the way
this process has unfolded

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and I'm deeply sorry.

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I also understand the deep disappointment,

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but I think as you have noted,

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it's also vital that we
protect this package.

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We need to proceed. Thank you very much.

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So given what interventions we've had,

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I propose that the revised
proposal is adopted as orally

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amended, a revised.

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Version.

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They opened the text.

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Hearing no objections. It is so decided.

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Final text who opened it?

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Thank you China.

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India.

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You have the floor call upon
parties escalating effort to

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face down unabated coal power and

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face out inefficient
fossil fuel subsidies.

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They changed the text. Wrong
facing out, coal facing down.

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Let us be clear, we do
not need to face down,

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but to face out coal and
fossil fuel subsidies.

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An inefficient subsid,

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see this is the word they added
inefficient subsidies for fossil.

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How is the subsidy efficient?

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We accept this change with
the greatest reluctance we do.

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So only,

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and I really want to stress
only because there are

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critical elements of this package
that people in my country need.

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That's the issue here. That's the
frustration by developing countries.

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It is like we have calling for
this all this time, but then

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now we are going into a formal process.

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Could this formal process
be a bit more faster?

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The point of the matter is that 1.5 degree
has always been a red line for us in

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particular low lying countries, island
states. What we like to express,

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of course is not just our astonishment
but our immense disappointment

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in the manner in which this has
been introduced. And secondly.

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I think much of the problems in
this world is because we just do not

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understand each other.
We started cutting trees,

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we started burning fossil fuels and this
self-interest has led to where we are

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today. It caused the climate crisis
and now even when we come at the table,

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we come with just national interest.

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Oh boy.

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God, it's.

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Cold. Oh dear.

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Which is it? Which one
is it? The shot New York.

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Times.

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New York Times.

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How do I pronounce Vanuatu?

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That is correct. Vanuatu.

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Okay. Yeah. So Vanuatu, which I
have never personally been to,

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caught my attention because they have
an interesting story about how they are

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trying to fight climate change. So
what is the status of that lawsuit?

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I'd maybe clarify the first point is
that it's not really a lawsuit that

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Vanuatu is trying to pursue.

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And this is something that our youth
campaign has been campaigning on for quite

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some time is what we call an advisory
opinion from the International Court of

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Justice.

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So it's not necessarily a case against
a particular country or an entity,

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but it is asking the court to
provide its opinion on a particular

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legal question.

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It's not a lawsuit saying.

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So for people outside your world who
don't understand the laws of all this,

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why does that matter? Why do you do that?

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So if you have the world's highest court
provides its opinion and clarifying

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what the obligations of states are, the.

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Obligation of which
states the obligation of.

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So this is because it'll
be an opinion from the ICJ,

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it'll be globally opinion of all states.

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What are the obligations
of any state that is, so.

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If you end up getting this, that would
also apply through the United States,

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right?

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That will be telling the United States
or China what is their responsibility?

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Even if a state does not
accept the advisory opinion,

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it's not legally binding,

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but it does clarify that
law and that aspect of law.

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So it will have this moral authority and
this legal authority that can be useful

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in a whole lot of multilateral
arrangements and a whole
lot of local, regional,

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international levels. So
indirectly or indirectly,

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it will have an impact on
countries like the US and China.

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An advisory opinion
gives no room for excuse.

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So state can argue it's not my
responsibility, it's not my obligations.

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But then if you have a high authority
that says this is your obligation,

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so that what it makes it so powerful,

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it eliminates the ambiguity and
vagueness around what is our

00:25:42.710 --> 00:25:45.030
responsibility to address
this climate crisis.

00:25:52.230 --> 00:25:55.030
Where I come from growing
up in solo islands,

00:25:55.030 --> 00:25:59.980
we have this very nasty tension
and the reason was because of

00:25:59.980 --> 00:26:04.110
land disputes where ethnic groups
fought against each other and

00:26:05.030 --> 00:26:09.110
I was braced up in that environment where
I see people killing each other and as

00:26:09.150 --> 00:26:11.350
a child I do not understand why
people are killing each other.

00:26:14.570 --> 00:26:19.390
So now that you have sea level
rise and people have to move

00:26:19.570 --> 00:26:22.510
in land, those memories come back.

00:26:23.170 --> 00:26:25.910
So you can imagine how concerned I was.

00:26:27.390 --> 00:26:28.670
I deeply care about this country.

00:26:28.950 --> 00:26:32.910
I want to do whatever I can to ensure
that our children in the future can have a

00:26:32.910 --> 00:26:33.743
better life.

00:28:02.490 --> 00:28:02.620
I.

00:28:02.620 --> 00:28:07.490
Thought comb got you. Good
to see you, man. Number one.

00:28:08.120 --> 00:28:09.260
Can I get one? Yeah, please.

00:28:12.280 --> 00:28:13.180
Dr. Justin Rose,

00:28:13.360 --> 00:28:16.900
who is the professor that taught the class
at international environmental law in

00:28:16.900 --> 00:28:17.733
2019.

00:28:18.080 --> 00:28:22.420
He was the person supportive of us in
the beginning where it was the most

00:28:23.220 --> 00:28:27.260
a difficult time for us to start off
this camping. All good. Number one.

00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:31.580
Can I take my mask off now?
Yes, you can sit at the front.

00:28:32.090 --> 00:28:33.660
Alright, that's the arrangement.

00:28:40.770 --> 00:28:41.603
Okay.

00:28:42.560 --> 00:28:46.700
We got Dame. You got what?
Dame McTell she's in.

00:28:46.800 --> 00:28:47.633
Oh, you kidding?

00:28:47.830 --> 00:28:48.663
She's in.

00:28:48.800 --> 00:28:49.220
Superb.

00:28:49.220 --> 00:28:51.380
Number one. Give me fun. That's.

00:28:51.540 --> 00:28:52.700
Excellent. Well done.

00:28:53.760 --> 00:28:54.040
Oh.

00:28:54.040 --> 00:28:58.980
Man, it was fantastic. Was
walking on thin ice? Yeah. Wow.

00:28:59.160 --> 00:28:59.993
Superb.

00:29:08.040 --> 00:29:11.940
You don't want this one, right? Hello?

00:29:12.370 --> 00:29:16.100
Good to see you. Smiling. Sitting up. Yes.

00:29:19.070 --> 00:29:19.903
How are you Justin?

00:29:20.650 --> 00:29:25.250
I am pretty good feeling
the, who's Kristen?

00:29:26.140 --> 00:29:27.610
Sorry? Kristen Barker.

00:29:29.860 --> 00:29:31.730
She's the receptionist at my podiatrist.

00:29:32.060 --> 00:29:34.330
Would you like me to
introduce you to her? So.

00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:40.513
Dear.

00:29:42.620 --> 00:29:44.480
Oh, well. In other news,

00:29:44.490 --> 00:29:49.040
we're going to hit 1.5 degrees in
the next five years too. Five years.

00:29:49.910 --> 00:29:53.160
There's a 50% chance of
going over 1.5 by 2030,

00:29:53.620 --> 00:29:56.520
but then it says it'll only be short
term, whatever that means. They mean

00:29:58.990 --> 00:30:01.000
I'll send you the article.
You can read it what it says.

00:30:01.510 --> 00:30:05.280
Perhaps the projection is over,
but if we do something about,

00:30:05.280 --> 00:30:09.560
it'll come down again.
We all open our fridges.

00:30:15.790 --> 00:30:16.623
Fuck.

00:30:17.560 --> 00:30:21.240
I want to focus on small problems like
getting a fucking canoe to New York City.

00:30:25.760 --> 00:30:28.620
We formed this organization known as
the Pacific Island student fight and

00:30:28.620 --> 00:30:32.900
climate change. In that formation we
had a launch and that theme was story,

00:30:33.580 --> 00:30:34.940
which means our story.

00:30:36.480 --> 00:30:40.980
What's causing it? Your
speaker's off. Your mic is on.

00:30:43.320 --> 00:30:46.060
You need to leave audio or no? No.

00:30:46.060 --> 00:30:47.700
If I leave audio then
they can't hear me here.

00:30:47.810 --> 00:30:48.643
Okay.

00:30:52.010 --> 00:30:56.840
Story Yumi is an important story of
this group of students trying to take

00:30:57.000 --> 00:31:01.200
forward a very, very ambitious campaign.
Everybody talks how bad the climate is,

00:31:01.200 --> 00:31:02.680
how governments are doing anything,

00:31:03.020 --> 00:31:06.720
but have they know about this campaign
that started at USP to seek an advisor

00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:09.760
opinion from the International
Court of Justice. As we all know,

00:31:09.760 --> 00:31:11.840
the Pacific Gaan forum
will be happening in Fiji.

00:31:11.980 --> 00:31:16.520
So Fiji is the chair of the forum
and hence that's why it's a very

00:31:16.800 --> 00:31:18.360
strategic to hold an event launch here.

00:31:18.940 --> 00:31:22.480
So we'll invite government
representatives, civil
society, and guess what?

00:31:22.660 --> 00:31:24.920
We have managed to invite Dam Meg Taylor,

00:31:25.060 --> 00:31:29.120
who is this former Secretary
General of the Pacific Island Forum.

00:31:29.380 --> 00:31:32.760
She will come and support us in our
campaign of our launch of civil society.

00:31:34.120 --> 00:31:36.720
I don't know about you guys,
but I'm very excited about this.

00:31:37.230 --> 00:31:38.800
Sometimes when people end up looking,

00:31:38.920 --> 00:31:43.720
I dance a little bit because how
amazing this is for the campaign to have

00:31:43.820 --> 00:31:46.040
the former Secretary
General and a champion,

00:31:46.220 --> 00:31:50.200
an absolute legend of the Pacific
coming to support the advisory campaign.

00:31:50.420 --> 00:31:51.960
But at the end of the day, it's you,

00:31:52.100 --> 00:31:55.840
the ones to go to your own leader
to ask them support this campaign,

00:31:55.840 --> 00:31:58.960
endorse the AO in the Pacific
Island forum that is upcoming.

00:32:04.220 --> 00:32:05.440
Now for us,

00:32:05.540 --> 00:32:10.160
the pathway started in getting our
Pacific states to endorse the campaign.

00:32:10.460 --> 00:32:12.920
We saw that if the
Pacific was behind this,

00:32:13.540 --> 00:32:17.000
we can get more states
to support this globally.

00:32:28.410 --> 00:32:31.480
Civil society can be in those spaces
where you want them to influence.

00:32:31.780 --> 00:32:34.760
In the United Nations civil society
does have a role at the table,

00:32:36.540 --> 00:32:41.410
so they can also reinforce the
government's capacity and advocacy as

00:32:41.410 --> 00:32:41.820
well.

00:32:41.820 --> 00:32:45.570
Civil society is there to prepare the
stage for then the actors can do their

00:32:45.570 --> 00:32:46.403
work.

00:33:01.510 --> 00:33:05.440
Nice. Come on. Icing on the cake.

00:33:11.340 --> 00:33:13.680
All right. It's all over by the
shouting. It's only eight seconds you go.

00:33:16.380 --> 00:33:19.560
So Solomon past muster

00:33:21.070 --> 00:33:23.240
Make the text bigger. Will you please?

00:33:30.870 --> 00:33:33.860
Maybe it's YCJ thing you're thinking of.

00:33:34.920 --> 00:33:37.620
No, no, it's actually
the, it's from the It's.

00:33:37.620 --> 00:33:42.420
The opinion. Oh, Meg. Oh no.

00:33:45.360 --> 00:33:48.220
Oh no. Oh no.

00:33:58.220 --> 00:34:00.880
Oh, well that's unfortunate.

00:34:06.860 --> 00:34:08.040
We just have to zoom her in.

00:34:13.500 --> 00:34:15.240
Yes, we will zoom her in

00:34:17.220 --> 00:34:19.840
and we'll just have to
suck it up and do our best.

00:34:41.200 --> 00:34:42.490
What That I can do.

00:34:47.040 --> 00:34:51.800
Welcome to the CSO Alliance launch
for campaign to seek an advisory

00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:54.360
opinion for the International
Court of Justice.

00:34:55.650 --> 00:34:58.170
I would like to just appeal
to young people. I was once,

00:34:58.470 --> 00:35:01.450
as one of the 27 law students at
the University of South Pacific.

00:35:01.800 --> 00:35:06.530
I was much inspired by how
confined I am in just my studies

00:35:06.820 --> 00:35:11.050
and how powerful I can become if I can
just apply those studies in practice.

00:35:11.820 --> 00:35:16.530
The idea of seeking an ICJ advisory
opinion formally resurfaced

00:35:16.710 --> 00:35:21.360
in 2019, and this was thanks
to the efforts of a group
of law students from the

00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:22.570
University of South Pacific.

00:35:23.070 --> 00:35:27.010
The court can establish clear standards
for governance based on science and the

00:35:27.010 --> 00:35:27.843
rule of law,

00:35:28.840 --> 00:35:32.610
a sharp contrast with the lowest common
denominator currently required to

00:35:32.610 --> 00:35:35.410
establish consensus in
climate negotiations.

00:35:36.150 --> 00:35:40.050
We saw the compromise that was
made on the floor in Glasgow when

00:35:41.130 --> 00:35:45.890
I think it was China and India moved some
last minute amendments to the outcome

00:35:46.610 --> 00:35:50.210
document. So I think it's critically
important that we get the language.

00:35:52.790 --> 00:35:56.130
We can think about for the
next. What about the attendance?

00:35:56.430 --> 00:35:58.530
Is the attendance all
right? I think it was okay.

00:35:58.960 --> 00:36:03.410
It's disappointing that we didn't
have ambassadors or diplomat.

00:36:04.050 --> 00:36:05.320
I think they were competing.

00:36:05.320 --> 00:36:07.290
We are competing at other
events as well. Right.

00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:11.840
I emailed Al and he said something.

00:36:11.840 --> 00:36:12.673
At the bottom or something.

00:36:13.110 --> 00:36:14.290
He will push them.

00:36:17.950 --> 00:36:22.090
Oh dear. He will push the
high commissioner to come.

00:36:22.430 --> 00:36:25.320
So I don't high commissioner
for whom? British High Comm.

00:36:26.820 --> 00:36:29.410
So I don't think they have an
event or something. I think.

00:36:29.410 --> 00:36:30.770
He's just really tired or something.

00:36:31.550 --> 00:36:32.050
All the.

00:36:32.050 --> 00:36:34.490
Diplomats. But yeah, all the diplomats. I.

00:36:34.490 --> 00:36:36.170
Feel like there's an
event somewhere. Maybe.

00:36:36.720 --> 00:36:38.290
This one would've come. What happened.

00:36:38.290 --> 00:36:39.250
To the New Zealand and

00:36:40.840 --> 00:36:45.770
they said their first secretary would
come and didn't come stopping this thing.

00:37:13.030 --> 00:37:15.450
My entire family has always
been subsistence farmers.

00:37:18.950 --> 00:37:21.610
Now that my grandma's
getting older, I realize, oh,

00:37:22.050 --> 00:37:23.570
I don't have anyone to teach me that.

00:37:26.110 --> 00:37:27.930
In terms of cyclone Pam,

00:37:28.230 --> 00:37:32.930
it occurred in 2015 and it took
us maybe three years or four

00:37:33.000 --> 00:37:34.930
just to recover our vegetation to recover

00:37:47.390 --> 00:37:48.223
no.

00:38:27.860 --> 00:38:28.693
One from

00:38:41.040 --> 00:38:44.690
them family. Now you wait
until time where you,

00:38:52.540 --> 00:38:53.373
especially.

00:39:11.470 --> 00:39:15.250
My uncle used to say that if a cyclone
comes and it blows over a tree,

00:39:15.950 --> 00:39:20.130
it had shallow roots and when
that tree is cleared off,

00:39:20.190 --> 00:39:22.250
it makes room for other
vegetation to grow.

00:39:22.390 --> 00:39:24.170
So it was seen as something positive.

00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:37.090
I just remember sort of
like the gradual buildup.

00:39:39.550 --> 00:39:41.770
The wind would slowly start to pick up

00:39:44.820 --> 00:39:46.250
and slowly get stronger and stronger.

00:39:48.070 --> 00:39:50.490
It was like building up
the suspense basically.

00:39:58.070 --> 00:40:00.220
And when it did come, oh my gosh,

00:41:03.660 --> 00:41:08.300
tycoon Pam destroyed approximately
64% of our overall GDP.

00:41:12.040 --> 00:41:16.660
That's more than half of what we make
in a year and that gets swept off

00:41:16.840 --> 00:41:17.700
within a night.

00:41:22.300 --> 00:41:25.740
Maybe a cyclone Category two,
we're accustomed to that,

00:41:25.800 --> 00:41:29.900
but with the changes in weather patterns
and with the increasing temperatures,

00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:33.650
the frequency of these cyclones are
becoming more and more apparent.

00:41:33.910 --> 00:41:37.650
And within five years we've
had two category five cyclones.

00:41:41.550 --> 00:41:44.530
The women in my village
have watched with horror

00:41:46.230 --> 00:41:49.490
as category five cyclones having minutes

00:41:51.390 --> 00:41:55.730
rip the apart the homes they have
saved up to build over decades.

00:41:56.950 --> 00:41:57.783
Our youth

00:41:59.150 --> 00:42:02.770
are terrified of the future
world we are handing to them.

00:42:03.320 --> 00:42:08.320
That is why the Vanuatu parliament
has declared a climate emergency in

00:42:08.340 --> 00:42:09.173
May of this year.

00:42:10.110 --> 00:42:14.360
Climate change is killing
us and yet fossil fuel

00:42:14.450 --> 00:42:19.010
corporations are raking being
billions of profit and states

00:42:19.610 --> 00:42:24.360
continue to subsidize them to
the detriment of our people.

00:42:38.530 --> 00:42:39.650
I think atu,

00:42:39.650 --> 00:42:43.170
there's a strong emphasis since primary
school in terms of climate change.

00:42:43.270 --> 00:42:45.930
So you're sort of born into it.

00:42:48.750 --> 00:42:53.320
It was Cyclone Herald at the time we
were fundraising and then I had this

00:42:53.320 --> 00:42:56.130
lecturer come up to me and he said,
do you think you're doing enough?

00:42:56.300 --> 00:42:59.530
You're just giving money to the problem.
You're not really fixing anything.

00:42:59.950 --> 00:43:04.650
So from then on I was triggered and I
decided to just find ways that I could

00:43:05.300 --> 00:43:09.250
assist. Hi solo, how are you?

00:43:10.140 --> 00:43:11.530
Hello. Hello. Hi.

00:43:14.550 --> 00:43:16.670
Hello. Hello. Good afternoon everyone.

00:43:17.540 --> 00:43:22.430
Good to see you. Roma.
Roma. How? How's the summit?

00:43:23.290 --> 00:43:24.123
Was it good?

00:43:24.300 --> 00:43:26.230
Yeah, it was super intense.

00:43:26.490 --> 00:43:30.390
We had a lot of presentations
on the AO digital applications.

00:43:31.340 --> 00:43:35.950
I have new members who are wanting to
join the P-I-S-F-C-C and they want to know

00:43:35.950 --> 00:43:38.950
a lot and they also have their activities
that they want me to be involved in

00:43:39.450 --> 00:43:43.550
and I didn't realize how time
consuming they would be. So yeah,

00:43:43.690 --> 00:43:47.430
so it's just really nice to see people
actually want to be involved in the

00:43:47.470 --> 00:43:49.670
P-I-F-C-C, especially the Vanuatu.

00:43:49.920 --> 00:43:53.950
There is an escalation activity that's
planned for the first day of the Pacific

00:43:53.950 --> 00:43:54.783
Islands Forum.

00:43:55.050 --> 00:43:58.270
We will get interested people and
those who are keen on this campaign,

00:43:58.450 --> 00:44:03.110
we will have them line up near the shore
where the vaca will travel along and

00:44:03.110 --> 00:44:04.950
they will broadcast this message,

00:44:04.950 --> 00:44:08.470
essentially asking leaders
to support the campaign.

00:44:08.570 --> 00:44:12.340
And so at the moment we're also thinking
about how we can take this to the

00:44:12.340 --> 00:44:13.173
online space.

00:44:13.360 --> 00:44:17.150
The simplest way you can do so one person
can do is just to do this like writing

00:44:17.310 --> 00:44:22.310
a text on a paper and saying endorse
the AO and taking a photo and

00:44:23.020 --> 00:44:23.950
tagging your leaders,

00:44:24.140 --> 00:44:28.910
tagging Prime Minister Albanese tagging

00:44:29.940 --> 00:44:33.530
Jacinda Den tagging Pacific
Island Forum. Anything you can do,

00:44:33.530 --> 00:44:36.570
it does pick up and it'll
annoy the hell out of them,

00:44:37.830 --> 00:44:42.050
but at least they get bombarded with
all of this message that it's really not

00:44:42.050 --> 00:44:45.290
just people in some countries but
everywhere across the world that are

00:44:45.290 --> 00:44:45.930
supportive of this.

00:44:45.930 --> 00:44:50.130
And of course we'll compliment the efforts
here in New York as well as anywhere

00:44:50.550 --> 00:44:51.270
on the campaign.

00:44:51.270 --> 00:44:55.530
So it's so much pressure and attention
to the Pacific Island Forum at the

00:44:55.530 --> 00:44:56.363
moment.

00:45:23.190 --> 00:45:26.840
George, can I get this straight if I can?

00:45:28.080 --> 00:45:31.770
What we are looking at is whether
or not a country like Australia,

00:45:31.840 --> 00:45:36.770
that is what the biggest exporter
of LNG, the second biggest,

00:45:36.970 --> 00:45:39.610
I think exporter of
coal would say, oh yes,

00:45:40.140 --> 00:45:43.810
let's support a resolution that says
the people that cause climate change

00:45:44.690 --> 00:45:48.810
breached human rights. You think
Australia's going to do that?

00:45:49.110 --> 00:45:52.810
The federal government sees other
reasons to celebrate confident.

00:45:52.860 --> 00:45:57.490
The Pacific is now convinced Australia's
serious about tackling climate

00:45:57.490 --> 00:45:58.323
change.

00:45:58.390 --> 00:46:03.050
Not everyone in the Pacific is
sure given Australia is still

00:46:03.050 --> 00:46:05.810
opening new coal and gas projects.

00:46:06.110 --> 00:46:08.090
The climate crisis is there for all of us.

00:46:08.110 --> 00:46:11.210
It's not just the Pacific and
the climate vulnerable countries,

00:46:11.210 --> 00:46:13.690
but the developed world
is also facing. This

00:46:22.290 --> 00:46:26.010
campaign has now grown into become
a youth and civil society campaign.

00:46:26.030 --> 00:46:30.890
So we've got as part of the alliance
more than 1,500 civil society

00:46:30.890 --> 00:46:34.330
organizations from all over the
world being a part of this campaign.

00:46:34.340 --> 00:46:37.770
So you're looking at a lot more people
than you see here in the ground because a

00:46:37.770 --> 00:46:41.330
lot more people are supporting us online
in different countries throughout the

00:46:41.330 --> 00:46:42.163
Pacific.

00:46:44.290 --> 00:46:48.770
I hear the voice on my say

00:46:51.070 --> 00:46:53.130
now. One more time. People.

00:46:53.260 --> 00:46:58.050
Going to arrive by the Today
we are embarking on a journey

00:46:58.470 --> 00:47:03.330
as a United Pacific. We are journeying
on our vaca for climate justice.

00:47:03.990 --> 00:47:08.970
We are calling on our leaders to board
the vaca with us and we are calling

00:47:08.990 --> 00:47:13.890
on our leaders to endorse the AO
at the SW Pacific Islands Forum.

00:47:40.990 --> 00:47:43.530
Is this one in the drug?

00:47:43.810 --> 00:47:48.770
Communicate it Commends
Vanuatu for pushing for

00:47:48.790 --> 00:47:53.170
the general assembly to request
an international court of justice.

00:47:55.630 --> 00:47:58.450
Not a ruling, but a decision

00:48:00.290 --> 00:48:01.123
advisory opinion.

00:48:01.130 --> 00:48:05.450
A lot of countries are still
hanging on to their always

00:48:06.070 --> 00:48:10.360
and not changing and so the
Pacific is looking at new ways

00:48:11.070 --> 00:48:11.770
to compel,

00:48:11.770 --> 00:48:16.650
particularly the big emitters to do
something and change their ways and make

00:48:16.650 --> 00:48:18.530
some firm commitments to climate change.

00:48:19.480 --> 00:48:24.410
That is why we have to look at all sorts
of options and this is one that one

00:48:24.590 --> 00:48:28.930
two has come up with and it's agreed
to by all a members of the forum.

00:48:41.790 --> 00:48:45.690
It was unbelievable. You see
it in black and white to say,

00:48:45.750 --> 00:48:50.570
we leaders endorse the
campaign to seek an advise Your

00:48:50.570 --> 00:48:53.810
opinion. I think yeah,

00:48:55.230 --> 00:48:57.090
you could advise for more.

00:49:30.390 --> 00:49:32.150
A-O-O-A-O,

00:49:36.060 --> 00:49:36.750
like

00:49:36.750 --> 00:49:41.750
A-O-A-O-O-A-O-O-A-O.

00:49:53.980 --> 00:49:56.110
Guys. I have two and a half thousand
stickers. I want to see none.

00:49:56.840 --> 00:49:57.470
Two and a half.

00:49:57.470 --> 00:49:58.303
Thousand stickers.

00:50:00.360 --> 00:50:02.510
You don't have to run man.
You don't have to run.

00:50:05.090 --> 00:50:09.470
Yeah, there's a climate bar one as
well, but I like the spirit. Yeah,

00:50:09.840 --> 00:50:12.270
thank you. Imagine coming back from

00:50:14.610 --> 00:50:16.110
for the judgment and you
see these stickers there.

00:50:20.330 --> 00:50:24.340
We came out from the Pacific and then
we met amazing people along the way.

00:50:24.710 --> 00:50:28.810
I met Justin. When do we
want it now? What do we want?

00:50:29.440 --> 00:50:33.490
Justice? When do we want
it? Now, as law students,

00:50:33.670 --> 00:50:36.130
we think that striking in
streets is very important,

00:50:36.670 --> 00:50:40.050
but as young people we really need to
come with very concrete solutions and the

00:50:40.050 --> 00:50:43.570
harm of course. Yeah. I guess you
cannot contain passion. Right?

00:50:45.750 --> 00:50:46.583
Oh dear.

00:51:32.260 --> 00:51:35.520
It is a real pleasure here on
the grounds of the Peace Palace,

00:51:36.060 --> 00:51:39.800
the very important place where we hope
to bring the issue of climate change.

00:51:41.380 --> 00:51:45.680
In my role as Fan Special Climate Envo,

00:51:46.280 --> 00:51:47.880
I am tasked with ensuring

00:51:49.470 --> 00:51:53.680
that when we bring a draft resolution
before the UN General Assembly,

00:51:54.740 --> 00:51:59.360
it contains a carefully crafted
legal questions as we had yesterday.

00:52:00.740 --> 00:52:04.960
We have have enough support to
ensure that it passes. Of course,

00:52:05.030 --> 00:52:07.590
without diluting the question.

00:52:15.790 --> 00:52:18.400
Good follow up afternoon in how we say,

00:52:18.780 --> 00:52:22.720
in where I come from and also
in Vanuatu. First and foremost,

00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:26.400
I would like to thank the
Vanuatu government for
bringing this amazing campaign

00:52:26.400 --> 00:52:29.360
to this level and really listening
to the voices of the young people.

00:52:34.820 --> 00:52:39.440
If I speak from a European
perspective that here in the EU

00:52:40.090 --> 00:52:42.680
we don't have support yet
from a single government.

00:52:42.780 --> 00:52:45.590
So we've been campaigning
and lobbying our governments,

00:52:45.590 --> 00:52:48.040
we've been speaking with
government officials,

00:52:48.260 --> 00:52:51.200
but governments aren't committing
and they're not saying no,

00:52:51.200 --> 00:52:55.200
but they're basically not giving an
answer. So in that way I would say no,

00:52:55.280 --> 00:52:58.960
our voices aren't being heard. And
also if you don't get an answer,

00:52:59.200 --> 00:53:03.840
I also feel like that's not a sign of
being taken seriously. Unfortunately.

00:53:04.150 --> 00:53:08.920
Somehow we've always struggled to
effectively communicate the real

00:53:08.920 --> 00:53:10.590
meaning of human cause. Climate change.

00:53:11.300 --> 00:53:16.200
Now in the Philippines we get an average
of 20 typhoons a year. So it's not new.

00:53:16.940 --> 00:53:21.760
But in the aftermath of Typhoon oed,
a whole city had no electricity,

00:53:22.140 --> 00:53:25.770
no drinking water, no utility
water, phones were useless.

00:53:25.910 --> 00:53:29.450
We couldn't even inform our families
that were okay, that were alive,

00:53:29.840 --> 00:53:31.010
raffled but alive.

00:53:31.950 --> 00:53:36.450
It looked like something
out of an apocalyptic movie
except it wasn't a movie.

00:53:36.590 --> 00:53:38.490
It was real life and I was living it.

00:53:38.990 --> 00:53:42.650
What's even more bothering is that we
are conditioned to just accept these

00:53:42.680 --> 00:53:46.880
realities our officials
told us, don't complain.

00:53:47.310 --> 00:53:49.680
Just try to stay alive
and help each other out.

00:53:50.540 --> 00:53:55.360
So this campaign for a youth
advisory opinion is also a

00:53:55.480 --> 00:53:57.110
campaign for our lives and our homes.

00:54:00.220 --> 00:54:04.800
So it's an amazing and
beautiful moment to be here

00:54:05.230 --> 00:54:09.160
because Excuse me, sorry.

00:54:16.050 --> 00:54:18.560
Sorry. It was my first
time to say that in public.

00:54:18.820 --> 00:54:21.040
So it was very difficult experience.

00:54:26.700 --> 00:54:27.400
So again,

00:54:27.400 --> 00:54:31.920
it's amazing and beautiful moment to be
here because as nature would have it,

00:54:31.920 --> 00:54:35.240
when we band together, we
not only survive, we thrive.

00:54:35.260 --> 00:54:39.840
And that is the true power
as people and as Myta said,

00:54:39.840 --> 00:54:41.480
we are more powerful than we think.

00:54:42.230 --> 00:54:44.640
Look at Kevin's camera. Let's
look at camera's, camera,

00:54:48.950 --> 00:54:49.783
Yumi.

00:54:50.340 --> 00:54:55.000
The idea of Yumi is a very
strong Islam word of saying

00:54:55.820 --> 00:54:58.760
we. There is not I. There's only we.

00:55:00.650 --> 00:55:01.483
Thank you.

00:55:02.250 --> 00:55:02.960
Thank you so.

00:55:02.960 --> 00:55:05.720
Much. But as you know in the global sense,

00:55:06.640 --> 00:55:08.080
I has become the mainstream.

00:55:29.890 --> 00:55:31.550
It is Saturday, the 70th of September,

00:55:31.570 --> 00:55:36.070
and we are here on the East river in New
York and we're sailing on a boat behind

00:55:36.130 --> 00:55:39.950
me. You can see the UN
building and we've got to say,

00:55:40.200 --> 00:55:42.830
world leaders vote yes
for climate justice.

00:55:44.090 --> 00:55:48.860
Climate justice, no justice.

00:55:51.960 --> 00:55:56.510
These are right. We are
going fight, fight, fight.

00:55:57.290 --> 00:55:59.750
Our survival is all right,

00:56:00.880 --> 00:56:03.190
we're going to fight, fight, fight.

00:56:04.090 --> 00:56:08.190
If we go get it, shot it down.

00:56:08.650 --> 00:56:09.590
You look so good.

00:56:13.960 --> 00:56:16.910
There we go. That's it. Alright.

00:56:17.090 --> 00:56:17.923
We got it.

00:56:44.840 --> 00:56:45.673
Gentlemen.

00:57:11.200 --> 00:57:13.780
New York essentially is the
hub, the UN headquarters.

00:57:13.920 --> 00:57:17.580
All nations have a mission here and
this is where the vote's going to take

00:57:17.580 --> 00:57:18.413
place.

00:57:18.640 --> 00:57:23.100
So it became important for us to
be in this central location to

00:57:23.490 --> 00:57:24.540
work on the campaign.

00:57:31.670 --> 00:57:34.980
Sorry, we got some decoration
layer from facility.

00:57:35.960 --> 00:57:40.020
We could use them or wherever,
whichever in the room or

00:57:45.640 --> 00:57:47.380
so the flag will be there for the meeting.

00:57:47.850 --> 00:57:51.580
What do you think? Do you take the
Vanuatu flag into the room? No, no.

00:57:52.120 --> 00:57:56.180
If you take ATU flag, you got to
take Oh, okay. Is not a national.

00:57:57.400 --> 00:57:59.900
Do you have a protocol? Like who
stands where and who stands where?

00:57:59.900 --> 00:58:00.740
Yeah, it's four prime.

00:58:00.900 --> 00:58:02.780
Ministers. So each, right?

00:58:02.850 --> 00:58:03.320
Yeah.

00:58:03.320 --> 00:58:06.620
And then ministers and then minister, and
then the back is the senior officials.

00:58:06.650 --> 00:58:07.483
Yeah. Okay.

00:58:15.240 --> 00:58:19.940
Can it be in the middle please?

00:58:20.240 --> 00:58:22.780
It looks kind of funny.
That is on one side.

00:58:32.220 --> 00:58:33.150
Climate urgency.

00:58:35.890 --> 00:58:39.190
The government of Vanuatu announced that
the resolution for an advisory opinion

00:58:39.460 --> 00:58:43.990
will be voted upon during the 77th
session of the United Nations General

00:58:44.270 --> 00:58:45.103
Assembly.

00:58:48.570 --> 00:58:52.070
If we can get that message across
to leaders as many as we can,

00:58:52.910 --> 00:58:56.670
I think it can have an impact
in the outcome of the vote.

00:59:11.490 --> 00:59:12.323
Nice to meet you.

00:59:27.850 --> 00:59:29.530
I speak today, first and foremost,

00:59:30.390 --> 00:59:35.170
on behalf of New Zealand as a supporter
of this initiative in my country,

00:59:35.270 --> 00:59:40.250
we are already seeing the severe weather
events as a consequence of climate

00:59:40.250 --> 00:59:43.250
change. One in 100 year events
happening every two years.

00:59:44.030 --> 00:59:47.770
We are already preparing for the
coastal inundation that we can expect.

00:59:49.150 --> 00:59:53.410
Entire low lying areas are
experiencing such repeat events

00:59:53.920 --> 00:59:54.770
that the question is,

00:59:54.770 --> 00:59:59.090
will they in the future be able to
ensure themselves against the significant

00:59:59.090 --> 01:00:00.210
events that we are seeing.

01:00:00.660 --> 01:00:05.290
Bangladesh as much as Pacific countries,

01:00:05.750 --> 01:00:08.730
as well as Caribbean countries?
We've mentioned Maldive here.

01:00:09.110 --> 01:00:13.770
We stand to lose most
from this climate change.

01:00:14.520 --> 01:00:18.930
With the glaciers melting in Himalayas
and all the water almost flowing through

01:00:18.930 --> 01:00:22.850
Bangladesh. We have floods almost
every year and couple of times.

01:00:23.670 --> 01:00:27.650
So from losing harvests
to increased saity,

01:00:29.790 --> 01:00:33.970
we are having to deal with a lot of
climate migrants within the country.

01:00:35.070 --> 01:00:36.890
It is humanity's biggest problem.

01:00:37.550 --> 01:00:42.410
So it is our moral responsibility to
go to the highest court of humanity.

01:00:43.150 --> 01:00:47.930
So your recie, I wanted to
say that we as the O-E-C-P-S,

01:00:48.280 --> 01:00:53.010
that means all of the 79 member
states are behind Vanuatu

01:00:53.470 --> 01:00:58.290
and we'll continue with this
campaign here and particularly

01:00:58.290 --> 01:01:00.090
with our partners, the European Union,

01:01:00.630 --> 01:01:04.930
to continue to make sure that
we succeed to get at least those

01:01:05.270 --> 01:01:10.010
90 votes that we may
need to make this post

01:01:10.010 --> 01:01:13.250
process grow through at
the general assembly level.

01:01:13.550 --> 01:01:18.410
So we are mobilized and indeed
suggest course we stand with

01:01:18.540 --> 01:01:20.130
Venir tool on this point. Thank you.

01:02:02.860 --> 01:02:03.693
Thank you.

01:02:06.430 --> 01:02:08.210
You say good look.

01:02:47.520 --> 01:02:49.540
1.5 To stay,

01:02:51.200 --> 01:02:52.980
one point fight to.

01:02:52.980 --> 01:02:53.813
Stay.

01:02:54.920 --> 01:02:58.060
1.5 to stay day and night.

01:02:58.360 --> 01:03:01.100
People are dying all
across the world. Now,

01:03:01.160 --> 01:03:02.740
should the International Court of Justice,

01:03:03.120 --> 01:03:06.580
the world's highest court
has to be silent. No.

01:03:07.250 --> 01:03:11.540
Does it have to be silent? No. Should
it say something on climate crisis? Yes.

01:03:11.760 --> 01:03:15.540
Should it say that climate crisis,
it's a human rights questions. Yes.

01:03:16.090 --> 01:03:20.100
Then we ask all of you to encourage all
of your governments to take the world's

01:03:20.100 --> 01:03:23.940
biggest problem to the world's highest
court and all they need to do when the

01:03:23.940 --> 01:03:26.660
time comes. When our governments alongside
with governments around the world,

01:03:26.990 --> 01:03:30.220
table it before the United National
General Assembly. Vote yes.

01:03:30.400 --> 01:03:35.220
For climate vote, yes for
climate justice. Hey, oh,

01:03:35.390 --> 01:03:37.340
let's go. Hey, oh, let's go.

01:03:38.390 --> 01:03:40.460
Let's go, let's go.

01:03:41.560 --> 01:03:46.460
Cop becomes the final push that we will
make because you have all countries

01:03:46.460 --> 01:03:47.293
coming together.

01:03:47.440 --> 01:03:51.260
You have everyone involved in
climate change being in one place.

01:03:52.720 --> 01:03:57.620
We need to get this through now if we
want the advisory to have some chance

01:03:58.240 --> 01:04:00.300
in impacting global action.

01:04:01.320 --> 01:04:02.153
In the past,

01:04:02.500 --> 01:04:06.700
advisory opinions have been instrumental
in establishing international laws on

01:04:06.700 --> 01:04:08.260
the right to self determination,

01:04:08.680 --> 01:04:12.220
the prevention of genocide
and nuclear disarmament.

01:04:13.440 --> 01:04:17.620
If there is power in the world to save
humanity from environmental disaster,

01:04:17.960 --> 01:04:19.660
it is the power of the people.

01:04:23.600 --> 01:04:26.820
Now I want to ask if we
are to do the lobbying,

01:04:27.400 --> 01:04:31.460
who do we lobby to? Is it the
Minister of Foreign Affairs?

01:04:31.720 --> 01:04:35.340
Is it the ambassador?
Is it the head of state?

01:04:35.760 --> 01:04:40.220
So who should we talk to so that we
have that vote? Thank you so much.

01:04:41.170 --> 01:04:43.940
Okay, interesting. We're not even hour
in and we already want to directly.

01:04:43.940 --> 01:04:48.020
Target the ministers. So V show,
who are we going to send the.

01:04:48.020 --> 01:04:48.853
Mail to?

01:04:51.980 --> 01:04:53.460
I think that's different
for every country.

01:04:53.460 --> 01:04:57.060
There are certain countries that have
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as the

01:04:57.060 --> 01:04:58.060
lead on all these matters.

01:04:58.210 --> 01:05:00.700
Sometimes it's the prime minister
or the president's office.

01:05:00.840 --> 01:05:04.860
So I think you would know
for certain which who

01:05:05.860 --> 01:05:09.180
the leavers are in your country and which
levers to pull in order to get this.

01:05:09.360 --> 01:05:11.380
But ideally we want a position.

01:05:11.380 --> 01:05:15.020
Essentially we're looking at a position
from a country to say that when the

01:05:15.180 --> 01:05:19.850
resolution for the UN General Assembly
comes for a vote that X country is going

01:05:19.850 --> 01:05:20.683
to vote. Yes.

01:05:20.880 --> 01:05:24.690
We'd like to introduce a very, very
special guest at our event today.

01:05:25.710 --> 01:05:30.010
It is my pleasure and honor to introduce
the honorable Ralph Reagan Vadu.

01:05:30.110 --> 01:05:34.250
He was the first ever government official
who actually listened to the youth

01:05:34.360 --> 01:05:36.650
when they approached him in 2019.

01:05:37.210 --> 01:05:42.170
I remember Solomon and his little group
that came and saw me in my office at the

01:05:42.330 --> 01:05:46.410
Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2019 when
I was minister of Foreign Affairs of

01:05:46.410 --> 01:05:47.243
Vanuatu.

01:05:48.010 --> 01:05:51.490
I remember an appointment to
meet with this group called

01:05:52.560 --> 01:05:54.010
Pacific Island students.

01:05:55.590 --> 01:06:00.570
Was it fighting climate change? And
they wanted to meet me. So yeah, okay.

01:06:00.570 --> 01:06:01.250
We had an appointment.

01:06:01.250 --> 01:06:05.530
They all turned up and they were all
really nervous and dressed up in their

01:06:05.530 --> 01:06:09.170
best, what do they call it?

01:06:09.850 --> 01:06:12.730
Tropical formal outfits or island where?

01:06:14.620 --> 01:06:16.540
U-S-P-M-L-S campus law students.

01:06:17.790 --> 01:06:21.410
And they talked about
that. We should put this,

01:06:22.270 --> 01:06:25.170
we should ask the ICJ to
give an advisory opinion.

01:06:25.360 --> 01:06:29.410
That'll be the way to deal
with this climate crisis.

01:06:30.660 --> 01:06:31.970
Thank you again to you all.

01:06:35.070 --> 01:06:36.250
You've done an amazing job.

01:06:37.310 --> 01:06:40.810
We will continue to need your voice
because a lot of us in government,

01:06:41.990 --> 01:06:45.450
I'm here with some public servants
over my table, but public servants,

01:06:45.450 --> 01:06:50.090
very slow people,
politicians, very slow people.

01:06:50.400 --> 01:06:51.770
Very la la, la.

01:06:51.870 --> 01:06:56.410
So we need you guys who
are like action now to

01:06:56.970 --> 01:06:59.770
continue to push, push, push, push to
make sure that these things happen.

01:07:00.510 --> 01:07:01.450
Please keep it up.

01:07:20.050 --> 01:07:22.210
I can put it on that side so
we can see this clearly. Yeah.

01:07:22.350 --> 01:07:24.010
Turned obs skew with 1.5 for sure.

01:07:27.320 --> 01:07:28.730
Just said John Kerry walked past.

01:07:29.150 --> 01:07:29.850
Really with.

01:07:29.850 --> 01:07:30.690
A huge entourage.

01:07:31.080 --> 01:07:33.450
Here we go. Tell him he's being an idiot.

01:07:35.560 --> 01:07:39.970
Solutions. Great. That's all
we want. Let's talk now more.

01:07:39.970 --> 01:07:40.803
Solutions.

01:07:41.910 --> 01:07:45.730
I'm here at CO 27 and I'm
inviting you to a special

01:07:46.890 --> 01:07:51.890
announcement which will be made by myself
at 10 o'clock in the morning in the

01:07:52.020 --> 01:07:54.530
press conference room of
the convention center.

01:07:56.340 --> 01:08:01.090
We're here at the last day of
this cop and since that first idea

01:08:01.430 --> 01:08:02.263
of the students,

01:08:02.550 --> 01:08:07.490
we are now at a stage where a group of
18 countries has worked on a resolution

01:08:07.830 --> 01:08:12.370
to take this question to the highest
court. More than just this group of 18.

01:08:13.310 --> 01:08:17.730
The group has obtained the in
principle support of more than

01:08:17.730 --> 01:08:20.450
86 countries from around the world.

01:08:24.190 --> 01:08:25.330
We have a vote coming up.

01:08:25.850 --> 01:08:30.130
We're trying to make sure we get that
vote over the line with a simple majority

01:08:30.150 --> 01:08:31.520
of the members of the UNGA.

01:08:31.520 --> 01:08:36.090
So any help in getting countries to
support the resolution in the UNGA,

01:08:36.430 --> 01:08:37.650
that's what we need immediately.

01:08:39.630 --> 01:08:42.890
So I'm pleased to announce that
today that commencing next week,

01:08:43.430 --> 01:08:47.600
the members of the core group will
move into the critical phase of UNGA

01:08:47.600 --> 01:08:49.170
negotiations on the
resolution in New York.

01:08:50.550 --> 01:08:53.520
Our group of 18 nations has
nearly finalized the draft,

01:08:53.850 --> 01:08:56.450
which will be shared to all UN
member states and the public.

01:08:56.450 --> 01:08:58.650
When we return home from COP 27.

01:08:59.550 --> 01:09:04.090
We are awaiting also the outcome of this
cop before we decide to finalize the

01:09:04.090 --> 01:09:05.970
text of the resolution. Thank you.

01:09:16.100 --> 01:09:19.520
In this critical stage where Pacific
governments and friends putting it on the

01:09:19.520 --> 01:09:22.170
table for negotiation to the
rest of the world countries,

01:09:22.170 --> 01:09:26.130
who would like to water down
those texts? In the beginning,

01:09:26.390 --> 01:09:30.650
the legal question that we formulated
was what are the obligations of state

01:09:30.940 --> 01:09:34.130
under international law to protect the
rights of the current future generation

01:09:34.270 --> 01:09:35.970
from the adverse effects
of climate change.

01:09:39.760 --> 01:09:43.520
That is the heart of the campaign because
the question is the thing that will be

01:09:43.520 --> 01:09:44.353
put before the court.

01:09:46.470 --> 01:09:51.450
The biggest worry we have right now is
interest of many states might come in

01:09:51.650 --> 01:09:52.890
interests of the polluters,

01:09:53.350 --> 01:09:57.520
but we are hoping that the heart of
the youth ask remains the same and the

01:09:57.730 --> 01:09:59.130
question does not get weakened.

01:09:59.900 --> 01:10:04.010
Especially some developing countries don't
want that framing around human rights

01:10:05.480 --> 01:10:08.660
for us. If those themes are
not reflected in the question,

01:10:08.970 --> 01:10:10.140
that question is meaningless.

01:10:14.270 --> 01:10:15.103
Please look.

01:10:32.260 --> 01:10:34.850
I mean if they don't fail,
the fossil fuels out now.

01:10:35.700 --> 01:10:38.700
I don't dunno what else we could
have done. We good? That's all.

01:10:38.910 --> 01:10:40.140
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

01:10:40.640 --> 01:10:44.060
May slash 2022 slash L 17.

01:10:45.180 --> 01:10:46.460
I give the floor to Switzerland.

01:10:47.150 --> 01:10:51.340
Thank you very much Mr. Chairman. I
speak on behalf of the integrity group.

01:10:52.040 --> 01:10:56.940
So our group will need time for
consultation and studied and we

01:10:56.940 --> 01:10:58.770
will have to postpone with
adoption of that decision.

01:10:58.840 --> 01:11:03.180
We would suggest that we interrupt
disciplinary for half an hour so that

01:11:03.180 --> 01:11:07.730
delegations can have a look at the
proposed decisions and that it can

01:11:08.170 --> 01:11:11.100
come back and take informed
decisions. Thank you very much.

01:11:12.140 --> 01:11:12.500
I thank you.

01:11:12.500 --> 01:11:16.330
If there is no objection to the
proposal of suspension for half an hour,

01:11:17.410 --> 01:11:21.560
I see none is so decided. The meeting
is suspended for half an hour.

01:11:25.230 --> 01:11:27.730
Winner. Thank you.

01:11:33.790 --> 01:11:36.730
The United States stands along with
other countries who have been making,

01:11:37.410 --> 01:11:39.810
I would say oversight,
but conscious oversight.

01:11:39.870 --> 01:11:44.050
The fact that they do not want to
highlight historical obligations.

01:11:47.900 --> 01:11:52.850
Lives being lost across
the globe because of

01:11:52.850 --> 01:11:54.600
climate change and sea level rise.

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So friends, I call on everyone.

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We are on this canoe together

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and journey together to achieve our 1.5

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by COP 28. Thank you Mr. President.

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To ensure that this process
remains relevant, responsive,

01:12:26.100 --> 01:12:29.170
and fit for purpose.
And that the transition.

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My people are dying now.

01:12:31.420 --> 01:12:35.450
Their blood is becoming
more and more bigger.

01:12:36.060 --> 01:12:37.890
So not even a word of encouragement.

01:12:39.590 --> 01:12:43.050
It means this is a
meeting of complicity to

01:12:44.450 --> 01:12:47.210
give death to Congo
people, for them to come,

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the world to come to occupy our land.

01:12:49.750 --> 01:12:54.600
But the one there is someone they just
judge. The one who created the world,

01:12:55.020 --> 01:12:57.730
the one who give us that
land, the one who give us.

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They will tie before the
world will not collapse.

01:13:04.060 --> 01:13:08.250
The world will not collapse. They will
die before the world will collapse.

01:13:08.270 --> 01:13:12.370
Because the will might the one who creates
we from the Pacific is going to bring

01:13:12.370 --> 01:13:13.130
us justice. Justice from the.

01:13:13.130 --> 01:13:16.010
Pacific. We believe we're
from the Pacific. We from.

01:13:16.010 --> 01:13:19.480
The Pacific. I was expecting a word. Just
a word to encourage the people there.

01:13:19.790 --> 01:13:24.290
So now I'm going with the message
of contamination. It's good to die,

01:13:24.630 --> 01:13:27.690
not to leave. This is a message
that will report to my people.

01:14:10.460 --> 01:14:13.480
Climate change for us in the
Pacific is more than just a problem.

01:14:15.350 --> 01:14:17.730
Our people are facing
extinction from these islands.

01:15:12.500 --> 01:15:16.310
He looks like he comes something

01:15:22.020 --> 01:15:22.853
he come. He.

01:15:39.450 --> 01:15:41.920
Every time you. Yes,

01:15:45.770 --> 01:15:48.600
every year. Mr. From.

01:16:40.560 --> 01:16:45.340
It sounds so far distant like climate
change affects us to the point that we

01:16:45.340 --> 01:16:47.340
have to take refuge in maybe Australia.

01:16:50.680 --> 01:16:51.770
Nobody wants to do that.

01:17:11.520 --> 01:17:15.930
Relocation is a very big deal
because it means you are leaving

01:17:16.140 --> 01:17:20.370
everything behind. Everything
you knew, everything you love.

01:17:23.710 --> 01:17:25.370
You no longer talking about homes.

01:17:27.190 --> 01:17:28.930
We are talking about islands,

01:17:29.120 --> 01:17:32.210
talking about countries being lost.

01:18:03.150 --> 01:18:04.460
Where will all those people go?

01:18:07.310 --> 01:18:11.940
And what is the responsibility of
international community to look into that,

01:18:11.960 --> 01:18:13.340
to the problem that of course,

01:18:13.340 --> 01:18:15.380
this island nation did not
cause in the first place.

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We are about to start the UNGA.

01:19:02.050 --> 01:19:05.790
We have delegations from Pacific Island
countries and around the world coming

01:19:05.940 --> 01:19:10.870
into the grand hole. We have worked
so hard for this for four years

01:19:12.960 --> 01:19:14.470
today. Today's the final day.

01:19:31.770 --> 01:19:35.830
The legal question that we formulated
was what are the obligations of state

01:19:36.120 --> 01:19:38.630
under international law to protect
the rights of the current and future

01:19:38.630 --> 01:19:41.020
generation from the adverse
effects of climate change.

01:19:41.540 --> 01:19:44.390
That has been the ultimate
mission of this campaign,

01:19:44.650 --> 01:19:48.100
to ensure that governments really protect
those rights of the current and future

01:19:48.100 --> 01:19:48.933
generations.

01:19:49.600 --> 01:19:54.550
And that question is now
incorporated into the resolution.

01:19:55.460 --> 01:19:59.020
Morning. Morning. Morning.
Morning. Hi solo. Hi. Hi.

01:19:59.450 --> 01:20:02.430
Did you got some
confirmation? Anything? We're.

01:20:22.590 --> 01:20:24.690
Oh, that voice, that tight voice.

01:20:28.060 --> 01:20:32.770
Are you about to sleep? No. Oh,

01:20:32.770 --> 01:20:35.170
don't lie. You were asleep, right?

01:20:36.950 --> 01:20:38.210
No, I had a power.

01:20:38.310 --> 01:20:43.290
Nap. Power nap. Hello al.
Great to hear your voice.

01:20:44.640 --> 01:20:48.730
Morning. No way. Hi.

01:20:51.950 --> 01:20:52.783
What's the time there?

01:20:52.940 --> 01:20:57.330
Hello? Hello. Hello. It's,

01:20:58.480 --> 01:21:00.050
it's a half hour past midnight.

01:21:00.350 --> 01:21:02.170
Oh, and he's still awake. Going.

01:21:02.290 --> 01:21:03.123
Strong.

01:21:04.930 --> 01:21:05.763
Everyone's awake.

01:21:07.640 --> 01:21:09.970
Yeah. Heaps of people. Were saying
they're going to be staying up all night.

01:21:11.840 --> 01:21:16.450
Fridays for future International.
Finally, sign onto the petition today.

01:21:16.480 --> 01:21:18.730
Only today. By today. Wow. This is.

01:21:19.100 --> 01:21:20.560
To the party. Yep.

01:21:52.290 --> 01:21:55.970
Excellencies, ladies and
gentlemen, earlier this month,

01:21:56.590 --> 01:21:58.850
the intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change,

01:21:59.410 --> 01:22:04.370
IPCC confirmed that humans are
responsible for virtually all

01:22:04.390 --> 01:22:07.050
global eating over the last 200 years.

01:22:08.020 --> 01:22:12.690
And those that contributed least to the
climate crisis are already facing both

01:22:12.690 --> 01:22:16.810
climate, health and
high levels of seawater.

01:22:18.580 --> 01:22:19.413
Indeed,

01:22:19.620 --> 01:22:24.600
it is the initiative of those countries
joined by so many others along

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with the efforts of young people all
over the world. That brings us together.

01:22:30.980 --> 01:22:33.310
And together you are making history.

01:22:34.420 --> 01:22:38.400
It has been said that there is nothing
more powerful than an idea will.

01:22:38.400 --> 01:22:42.640
Time has come and now is the
time for climate justice.

01:22:43.060 --> 01:22:43.893
And I thank you.

01:22:45.440 --> 01:22:50.440
I also wish to highlight
the important role of the

01:22:50.440 --> 01:22:54.380
young law students in
the Pacific who inspired

01:22:55.210 --> 01:22:59.700
this initiative and who brought this
to the attention of the ATU government

01:23:00.080 --> 01:23:01.260
in 2019.

01:23:02.250 --> 01:23:06.810
This initiative has spurred
a movement around the world.

01:23:14.310 --> 01:23:17.170
The assembly will now
take a decision entitled,

01:23:17.600 --> 01:23:21.890
request for an Adversary Opinion
of the International Court Justice

01:23:22.750 --> 01:23:25.970
on the obligations of states,
resite of climate change,

01:23:26.830 --> 01:23:29.650
and now keep the flaw to
the re of the secretariat.

01:23:30.270 --> 01:23:33.970
The following countries have also
become co-sponsors. Afghanistan,

01:23:34.960 --> 01:23:39.450
Armenia, Bo, her Gona,
Botswana, Dominican,

01:23:40.270 --> 01:23:45.210
Ecuador, El Salvador, Ecuador,
Guinea, Indonesia, Israel,

01:23:45.900 --> 01:23:50.650
Japan, Kurdistan,
Malaysia, Mongolia, Peru,

01:23:51.560 --> 01:23:54.170
Philippines, Poland, Republic of Korea,

01:23:54.840 --> 01:23:58.770
some Marina and Europe wide.
If any other countries,

01:23:59.500 --> 01:24:03.330
which to co-sponsor a slash 77 slash L 58,

01:24:03.510 --> 01:24:08.020
please signify by pressing the
microphone button. Thailand,

01:24:09.430 --> 01:24:13.150
Tajikistan, IET, Peru.

01:24:15.500 --> 01:24:19.390
Ghana. Mali. Burundi.

01:24:20.380 --> 01:24:23.020
Bolivia. Tim,

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that's it. Mr. President. Thank you.

01:24:32.760 --> 01:24:37.560
I thank the representative of
the secretariat. May I take it?

01:24:37.900 --> 01:24:42.640
The assembly is sized to adopt
drought resolution age slash 77

01:24:42.890 --> 01:24:44.310
slash and 58.

01:24:56.160 --> 01:24:57.060
It is so decided.

01:25:05.290 --> 01:25:09.350
If the dry sounding language didn't clue
you in something big was happening for

01:25:09.350 --> 01:25:11.830
the first time in history.
The world's top part,

01:25:11.850 --> 01:25:13.710
it's a historic moment
for climate justice.

01:25:13.910 --> 01:25:17.750
A historic decision that no vote was
made. The general assembly decided by.

01:25:17.810 --> 01:25:21.710
The, they agreed on was to kick the usual
toothless conversations around climate

01:25:21.710 --> 01:25:26.630
change up and wet nations that are
literally drowning can force the biggest

01:25:26.650 --> 01:25:28.060
carbon emitters to do.

01:25:33.330 --> 01:25:34.190
We were expecting,

01:25:34.190 --> 01:25:38.790
really there will be oppositions and
there were no opposition and there was an

01:25:38.950 --> 01:25:42.750
adoption. So it took a while to
understand that, wow, we got it.

01:25:44.810 --> 01:25:48.710
That it is a reality. We hack the un.

01:25:59.730 --> 01:26:01.230
You. Congratulations, congratulations.

01:26:03.290 --> 01:26:04.123
Congrats.

01:26:07.760 --> 01:26:12.050
Long time coming. Finally.

01:26:13.270 --> 01:26:14.650
Did they come? Yes, they did.

01:26:21.430 --> 01:26:23.850
We were the ones who shouted.
Congratulations. Yeah,

01:26:26.760 --> 01:26:29.930
pure chaos. Pure chaos. Look at that

01:26:31.920 --> 01:26:32.753
capture.

01:26:34.060 --> 01:26:37.210
It was pure chaos. Should
we get some lunch? Yeah.

01:26:38.600 --> 01:26:39.433
Good idea.

01:26:46.170 --> 01:26:51.050
I think Pacific really shows the world
that if we were able to look after each

01:26:51.050 --> 01:26:54.450
other, we could actually have a better
international community out there.

01:27:01.520 --> 01:27:04.770
When the initiative started in
the classroom, it was our story,

01:27:04.830 --> 01:27:08.480
the student's story. That
story is not limited to us.

01:27:09.150 --> 01:27:11.450
The climate crisis is a global crisis.

01:27:12.850 --> 01:27:17.040
So our story becomes the
story of the entire world

01:27:18.460 --> 01:27:21.560
on a very important platform, the
International Code of Justice.

01:27:22.850 --> 01:27:26.720
Hence it is you, me, the whole world.

01:28:16.980 --> 01:28:20.310
Sitting in the middle of concrete jungle,

01:28:24.830 --> 01:28:29.230
I got this feeling deep inside me saying

01:28:30.790 --> 01:28:33.510
I am poor. No, no,

01:28:34.310 --> 01:28:38.990
I still believe I'm still
living. So I must sing

01:28:40.770 --> 01:28:45.190
for the voice says that
can't be heard anymore.

01:28:46.010 --> 01:28:50.350
Saying flying

01:28:52.090 --> 01:28:52.923
in the

01:28:57.450 --> 01:28:58.283
flying,

01:29:05.230 --> 01:29:08.130
flying high in the

01:29:13.030 --> 01:29:13.450
flying.