Marshall Islands leader in climate plea to UN

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Updated September 25, 2009 19:47:56

The G20 leaders are preparing to phase out subsidies for oil and other fossil fuels, to help fight climate change. There's no firm timetable on that, but there is an agreement to intensify efforts on hammering out a new climate change deal at the UN's major summit in December. The issue is now one of survival for Pacific atoll nations - with king tides and rising saltwater a real threat to community safety and food security.

While many world leaders have moved on from the UN to the G20 in Pittsburgh, the General Assembly is still underway in New York. And the first Pacific Leader to address the assembly this year has made climate change the cornerstone of his address.

Presenter: Campbell Cooney, Pacific Correspondent
Speaker: Litokwa Tomeing, President of the Marshall Islands

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