'Door Closing' on Warming Fix: UN Climate Chief Christiana Figueres

On 2^nd September 2014, United Nations climate change chief Christiana Figueres warned time was running out for meaningful action on global warming.

She even said that low-lying Pacific nations facing ever-rising seas.

UN climate chief made this statement in Samoa for a UN conference on Small Island States. 

This worldwide conference is one of the biggest the region has ever seen.

In the Conference UN climate change chief Christiana Figueres made following statements:

• The impact of climate change on Small island states in Pacific nations is greatest, even though they had contributed little to the problem.
• Climate change is the greatest threat these islands face and they are recognised as the bellwether of global efforts to address this issue.
• Unless the world acts on climate change in a timely way, they are going to be the hardest hit.
• Rising seas not only eroded the coastlines of these island states but also they spoiled water supplies when they entered the water table and swamped agricultural land, rendering it barren.
• Warming also meant more cyclones and storms battered the islands, while planning was underway for a worst-case scenario where populations of climate change refugees would have to be relocated from their homelands.
• Countries as large as Papua New Guinea are already starting to identify which are their most threatened populations.
• These are extreme measures that these islands are having to look at while the rest of the world, want migration of populations out of the islands to be kept at a minimum.
• Current climate change situation faced by these island nations can be timely curtailed if there is quest to seal a global pact on greenhouse gas emissions by the end of 2015.
• UN wants to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-Industrial Revolution levels, which scientists say is the minimum needed to stabilise the climate.
• The science tells us that we have to stay under two degrees temperature-wise and that the door is closing quickly. It's still possible for us to stay under two degrees but we have to do it.