Claim: UN climate treaty can prevent rising sea levels

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/12/why-next-climate-treaty-vital-for-country-to-survive

For atoll island countries like mine lying less than two metres above the rising oceans, the ambition and architecture of the new agreement will play a big part in determining whether our countries survive into the second half of the century. It is quite simply a matter of life or death.