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‘Beginning of a new era’: Pacific islanders hail UN vote on climate justice

Members of Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change at a protest during the COP27 UN summit in Egypt.
Members of Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change at a protest during the COP27 UN summit in Egypt. The group has celebrated the passing of a UN resolution calling for legal clarification of state obligations on climate. Photograph: Nariman El-Mofty/AP

A group of Pacific Island students who were instrumental in pushing a UN resolution that should make it easier to hold polluting countries legally accountable for failure to act on the climate crisis have greeted its adoption as historic.

“Young people across the world will recall the day when we were able to get the world’s highest court, the international court of justice, to bring its voice to the climate justice fight,” said Solomon Yeo, campaign director of Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC), who is from Solomon Islands.

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