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The UN climate summit opens with a voice from an endangered nation

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Leaders from all over the world have gathered in New York to attend the UN Climate Summit. The first thing they heard was an impassioned poem from a mother and activist from the Marshall Islands, a tiny nation in the Pacific that may no longer exists if climate change isn’t halted.

An abandoned house next to a small lagoon on South Tarawa in the central Pacific island nation of Kiribati in 2013. Nations like Kiribati and the Marshall Islands may disappear due to climate change.

In Pacific island nations, there’s nowhere left to run from climate change

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