Climate change no fairy tale, says Sore (Solomon Islands)

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Climate change no fairy tale, says Sore

Monday, 15 December 2008

THE bad effect of climate change is not a fairy tale but an on-the-ground reality, the Solomon Islands told the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Poland.

“On a daily basis, we are experiencing coastal erosions, we are fighting sea level rise and we are drinking brackish water,” said Rence Sore, the Permanent Secretary of Environment, Conservation and Meteorology.

“Our gardens are producing less food and our seas are supplying us with less fish. We are taking insufficient protein and energy food is becoming scarce,” he said.

Mr Sore delivered his country’s statement to the ministerial plenary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in the Polish city of Poznan as the country’s environment minister, Gordon Darcy Lilo, was unable to attend due to ill health.

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