FijiLeaders of 14 governments attended island-focused climate talks.
Islands want 1.5C kept alive, finance reformed and ocean governance on the UN summit’s agenda.
A recent UN report finds warming reaching at least 1.8C even under the most optimistic scenario.
Few leaders from outside the Pacific came, but Palau’s president says Pacific states steward nearly 20% of Earth’s surface.
Islands will push ocean governance onto the formal agenda at the UN climate summit in Turkey in November.
How each outlet framed it
- Dialogue Earth
- frames the Pre-COP in Fiji as a Pacific-led event, defending the absence of non-Pacific national leaders against media criticism
Sources: Dialogue Earth