COP climate talks are 'heartbreak' for Pacific Islands. Here is why they want to host them

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Joseph Sikulu's long-haul journey home to the Pacific has felt fruitless after the recent world climate talks.

It has become a "heartbreaking" exercise seeing the annual United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP) summit achieve so little of the action needed for Pacific Islands to survive climate change, the Tongan-Australian climate activist said.

But he still makes the multi-day trip to the negotiations each year, regardless of their slow progress on curbing carbon emissions.