AFP Ocean-threatened Marshall's leader posts climate video plea <\/p>\n
Majuro (Marshall Islands) (AFP) - Marshall Islands President Christopher Loeak was forced to heighten the seawall protecting his home last year, but says the year-old defences are now barely enough to protect his family from a \"climate emergency\". <\/p>\n
PRE Friday, ahead of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's climate summit in New York City next week. <\/p>\n
Standing outside his home in the capital Majuro next to the heightened seawall, Loeak tells the camera that it is \"barely enough to protect my family from the encroaching waves.\" <\/p>\n
\"For the Marshall Islands and our friends in the Pacific, this is already a full-blown climate emergency,\" Loeak said. <\/p>\n
He will join more then 100 heads of state at the September 23 forum, which he hopes will galvanise support to build \"the greatest climate change alliance\" the world has seen. <\/p>\n
The United Nations is seeking to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels, but scientists say current emission trends could hike temperatures to more than twice that level by century's end. <\/p>\n
While US President Barack Obama is to outline his vision for reining in greenhouse gas emissions, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are among a number of prominent world leaders who will be no-shows at next week's meeting. <\/p>\n
UN climate envoy Mary Robinson believes the summit will see the world begin to seriously tackle global warming ahead of a crucial conference in Paris next year. <\/p>\n
\"The message from the climate summit and the message going forward to Paris is that it's not business as usual with a little bit of green attached,\" Robinson said recently. <\/p>\n
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