The Solomon Islands Foreign Minister Patteson Oti says small island states will suffer the negative impacts of climate change if world leaders continue to ignore calls to address the problem.
He says Solomon Islands and other small pacific island nations which are home to 5 percent of the world's population, could disappear under the rising oceans as the Earth warms.
Mr Oti warned that the Solomon Islands and other members of the Alliance of Small Island States face a future of more violent storms, depleted fish stocks, bleached coral reefs and even annihilation if the world fails to deal with climate change.
The alliance comprises 37 members of the United Nations and six observers. .
The group is meeting on the sidelines of a United Nations conference on climate change.
