They contribute to less than one percent of the global emissions, yet the small island nations are the most affected by climate change.
According to Toeolesulusulu Cedric Schuster, chair of the Alliance of the Small Island States (AOSIS), a host of calamities including from the rising sea levels to cyclones, and droughts, to coral erosions, made worse by the climate crisis are threatening the entire existence of island nations.
“When we talk about climate change, we experience it on a daily basis for the whole year,” Schuster told Al Arabiya English on the sidelines of the COP28 Summit in Dubai.
“We have countries that are affected by droughts, but the same one gets blown away by a cyclone and the ones that are also affected with flooding are also getting affected from the coral bleaching, so it’s the whole gamut of why we are very concerned,” he added.