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In glasgow, cathy has been navigating the negotiations as part of the fight to secure the billions needed for the marshall islands to adopt 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 for basically ensuring that our islands are safe in the present and those costs are in the several billions. and so the financing that we need is a scale in which we can't meet, you k...

Beyond 1.5 degrees of warming. not everyone gets to make choices about life and death. we here are privileged today to do exactly that. the pacific islands are facing an existential crisis. extreme weather patterns and rising sea levels are already forcing people to relocate and threatening to create a generation of climate refugees. what's happening here is a bellwether of the planet's future. as the world met for the cop 26 in glasgow. i traveled to the pacific islands to meet women on the front lines who are leading the fight against the climate crisis

From elders relocating their villages. .. they told us to go, go. you just worry about your life. ..to a younger generation leading with practical approaches. so mangroves are the real eco heroes and the eco gems. from the first female leader in the pacific islands... building up islands is a possibility that is going to take a lot of money that we don't have. ..to the only current serving female prime minister. there's very low emissions from the pacific and yet. we are most impacted. who carries the expectations of a generation of young women looking for representation. fiame naomi mata'afa ...

Our belief is that finance is critical to rights and to success. here in glasgow, we're 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. ..of this fight. so, the uk. prepared this session so that the pacific could talk directly with the president of cop 26. i know this is particularly important for the pacific. i hope we will see progress on all of these issues. prime minister, i finally want to say to you that my team and i are straini...

For the planet, but how can you make your christmas the most sustainable time of the year? fiona lamdin has been finding out. christmas is often a time of excess and with top 20 expression our minds, many thinking about how to celebrate slightly differently does cop 26 -- cop 26. mum celebrate slightly differently does cop 26 —— cop 26. mum louise with 12—year—old eiler and ten—year—old male i want to have a greener christmas but aren't sure where to start. we have asked eco— expert sarah west to meet us here at york market for help. where do we start? it's a really expensive tim...