Marshall Islands climate ambassador Tony de Brum died aged 72 on Tuesday at his home in Majuro, surrounded by family.
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| Tony de Brum at the 2015 Paris climate summit. |
As former foreign minister, he led negotiations for a tough 1.5C global warming limit at the 2015 Paris climate summit. This was crucial to give his low-lying island home a chance of survival amid rising sea levels, he argued.
Having witnessed the harm wreaked by US nuclear bomb tests on Bikini atoll as a child, de Brum was also a lifelong campaigner for reparations and disarmament.
The country’s president Hilda Heine announced his death “with great sadness and a very heavy heart”.
Read Megan Darby’s ClimateHome story - “Tributes pour in to Marshallese “climate hero” Tony de Brum.”
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