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'We show up': Pacific leaders apply pressure at oceans summit

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Nowhere is humanity's exploitation of the oceans more starkly illustrated than the Pacific Ocean, where small island nations are fighting to outlast a crisis not of their making. The islands are besieged by rising seas and worsening storms, their coastlines choked in plastic, fishing waters plundered and coral reefs bleached and barren.

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'We show up': Pacific leaders apply pressure at oceans summit

Nowhere is humanity's exploitation of the oceans more starkly illustrated than the Pacific Ocean, where small island nations are fighting to outlast a crisis not of their making.

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Pacific Islands Drown for Lack of Funds and a Plan Against Fossil Energies

Antonio Torres del Cerro Niza (France), 12 Jun (EFE).- Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Fiji, three small Pacific states threatened by sea level rise, warned that their survival depends on accelerating the funds pledged to adapt to climate change and a global plan to reduce fossil energies. An existential threat shared in the Pacific These three small States have denounced this Thursday at the UN Ocean Summit (UNOC3) a "existent threat" they share with anoth…

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