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Port Vila (AFP) Aug 3, 2010 - The smallest Pacific island nations, some of which fear being swamped by rising sea levels due to climate change, said Tuesday they had seen little of the global funding promised to combat the problem. Meeting in Port Vila ahead of a broader two-day Pacific Islands Forum which begins Wednesday, the leaders of some of the world's tiniest states admitted their voice on the issue was often lost ... more
"We are the most vulnerable in many respects and therefore we've got to take the lead," the premier of the island nation of Niue, Toke Talagi, told a press conference.
Talagi said that despite the UN-backed global conference in Copenhagen in December -- where rich nations promised almost 30 billion dollars in aid from 2010-12 to help poorer countries combat climate change -- access to climate-linked funding was difficult to obtain.
"The thing that we are finding is that even with the financial resources that have been promised and pledged, we still haven't received much at all," he said.
"We believe at the present moment that the processes are taking too long."
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