But "it will be judged by history as little more than words on paper if the world fails to take the level of action needed to prevent the loss of entire island nations" he said in a statement. It also called for greater attention to loss and damage from climate change, and access to funding to help pay for that. An aerial shot of the village of Kivalina, an island on the outer coastline of Alaska, which is dealing with some of the North's most extreme effects of climate change. Developed countries have promised to mobilize $100 billion a year by 2020 from different sources to help poorer nations develop cleanly and become more resilient to climate change. "Slowly Africa is being pushed to the precipice," he said on the sidelines of the talks.

Source: CBC News November 17, 2017 23:26 UTC