Pacific nations insist world must increase efforts to meet global warming limit

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Pacific delegates at a climate meeting in Fiji urged governments to do more to cut emissions and keep global warming within a critical temperature limit. The meeting is intended to shape Pacific priorities ahead of COP31, with island nations particularly concerned about sea-level rise and extreme weather.

By Peter Hobson NADI, Fiji, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Global governments must increase efforts to reduce emissions because the planet is "hurtling past" a critical temperature target that would restrain sea level rises and extreme weather, delegates at a major climate conference in Fiji said on Wednesday. Pacific nations, which are among the world's most vulnerable to climate change, are trying to lock their priorities into global climate negotiations at the ministerial meeting in Fiji, a precursor to the COP31 forum in Turkey in November.