Officially, members will "protect US interests" but in essence they will be helping to negotiate the terms of the Bonn agreement. The official host of COP 23 is Fiji, and that country has put together a coalition of South Pacific countries with swagger. Suva has organised a dozen nations into a group it calls Pacific Climate Warriors. First and foremost will be world agreement to end the fossil fuel era. These South Pacific nations represent the first attempt in 23 of these UN-sponsored meetings to take the world on a revolutionary -- some say inevitable -- path to future energy policy.

Source: Bangkok Post November 05, 2017 22:07 UTC