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Small Island States urge rapid implementation of climate agreement

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"The Paris Climate Change Treaty represents an historic step forward in the international effort to address the crisis. The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) played a key role in its adoption and were instrumental in winning the inclusion of the 1.5-degree temperature goal", said Ahmed Sareer, Permanent Representative of Maldives to the United Nations.

"Our vulnerability to climate impacts gives islands unparalleled moral authority in the climate debate. But we also show leadership through action. The first four countries to ratify the Paris agreement -Fiji, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Maldives- were all islands and AOSIS members", said Sareer in this opinion piece for IPS News.

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