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We have advocated for a balance between mitigation and adaptation finance. our belief is that finance is critical to rights and to success here in glasgow. were really on the front of the very front lines with no higher ground to retreat to and so we understand, as do all of our brothers and sisters in the pacific and in islands around the world, the stakes of this fight. so, the uk prepared this session so that the pacific could talk directly with the president of cop26. i know this is particul...

Champions of gender equality. if you could look on balance and think what are the positive outcomes and the sort of negative outcomes of events like cop26? i dont know whether its just the nature of how things are with human beings that when youre pushed, you take your extreme position, then how you navigate to bring those extremes, you know, to come to a middle ground. you know, with covid, weve seen such a strong collaboration. thats a very clear example and demonstration of what we can do whe...

It can collaborate, it can respond very quickly. thank you so much, prime minister. the success of cop26 wont be known for the next few years, but if the world continues to warm, failure will be obvious. hearing no objections, it is so decided. applause

Death sentence, and weve come here today to say try harder, try harder. in glasgow, cathy has been navigating the negotiations as part of the fight to secure the billions needed for the marshall islands to adapt for its future survival. so we need funding right now for adaptation. we need that funding to be accessible. we need to be...and we need it to be scaled up. so we need a large amount of money. we have studies thatjust came out that gave us preliminary costs for adaptation for basically e...

A month after the U.N. climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, known as COP26, politicians, analysts and climate action advocates are taking stoc

Urgent action is needed as continent’s economies, communities, ecosystems all depend on sustainable management of marine resources.

Its now my pleasure . to introduce tina stege, the climate envoy of the marshall islands _ we would love to hear your thoughts on what you would like to see - from the outcomes of cop26. we have advocated for a balance between mitigation and adaptation finance. our belief is that finance is critical to rights and to success. here in glasgow. were really on the front of the very front lines with no higher ground to retreat to and so we understand, as do all of our brothers and sisters in the paci...

You know, its very sad that for us in the pacific, theres very low emissions from the pacific and yet we are most impacted. and of course, because we are island states and samoas in a more fortunate situation that we are volcanic, so we have high ground, but the the echo islands, you know, there is significant impact of the sea rise, even to the extent where the sovereignty of nations, because their land is literally going under the water. fiame is launching her countrys own climate policy as pa...

A month after the U.N. climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, known as COP26, politicians, analysts and climate action advocates are taking stoc

Cooperate when its clearly in the companys best national interest. here the announcement to start working together in the cop26 on climate. also the united states reached out directly to the chinese and secured a level of cooperation when both countries released oil from the strategic reserves at the same time. why? prices are high and there are challenges at home in dealing with inflation. so on balance, i agree its a balancing act, but not just international, but also domestic politics. >> ann...