Pacific nations make desperate cry for climate change action

New Zealand climate scientists have echoed desperate cries from small Pacific nations in the firing line of rising seas.

Representatives from 17 Pacific states, including Kiribati President Anote Tong, have been meeting leaders and experts in Wellington this week as part of Victoria University's Pacific Climate Change Conference.

The university's Professor James Renwick said there had been a sense of "alarm and panic" from Pacific delegates, whose low-lying nations were facing between 50cm and 1m of sea level rise by the end of this century.

Read Jamie Morton’s story in the New Zealand Herald - “Pacific nations desperate for climate action.”