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And of course, because we are island states and samoa's 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. she is launching her country's own climate policy as part of samoa's efforts to meet the paris agreement. a key part of it will be on accessing climate funds. this is the amount of money worked out at cop 26 that the big carbon emitters contribute to help pay for the climate dam...

With more climate—induced disasters. can we go back to our home islands with nothing? and for my country, the answer to that is no. it's hard to understate the urgency of the crisis in places like the marshall islands, the current projected rise in sea levels threatens 40% of building structures in its capital. kathy kitchener is a poet and the daughter of the former president, hilda heine, and she'll be attending the cop 26, as part of the island's delegation this year. in 2014, she captured a global audience at the un. when she read her poem written for her baby daughter. because we won't ...

To have for our people. a large part of the negotiations, cop 26, will be on how to mitigate global warming to 1.5 degrees. but in samoa and the pacific, there's an equal urgency in securing money to adapt to living with the already devastating effects of climate change. i don't think, you know, there was a consciousness and people weren't talking about climate change when i was a young child. but you did begin to see it in terms of the impact that it had. you know, because this is beachfront and we saw that encroachment and we saw the people moving. perhaps we didn't give it the name climate ...

The world community is meeting in glasgow, scotland, for the cop 26. and one of the things that they hope to achieve in glasgow is the rule book, which is essentially how we will go about addressing the climate change challenge and the commitments that countries will make. this is the indication of our commitment to climate change, and i hope that they will not only be words written on a page, but that we will carry out the intent of the words therein. we do not want that dreaded death sentence, and we've come here today to say try harder, try harder.