The Pacific Community says climate finance needs to empower efforts to adapt to a changing climate, not trap countries in debt.
The Community's Deputy Director General, Cameron Diver, is part of a group of Pacific agencies at the UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland, ensuring member governments have current policy advice to help inform climate negotiations and decision making.
Discussions will focus on scientific consensus that global temperature rise cannot exceed 1.5 degrees celsius above pre-industrial times without dire consequences.
World leaders arrive this week in Katowice and as Mr Diver tells Dominic Godfrey, Pacific delegates will try to make developed countries understand no country is immune.
Mae Jemison gives a speech during COP 24, the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Katowice, Poland on 4 December, 2018. Photo: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto
