Pacific Island Forum Leaders in New York last week met with the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

They spoke about a range of issues of importance to the Pacific Region including gender equality and women’s empowerment, financing for development, the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the effects of climate change.

Following that meeting, Papua New Guinea, the current Chair of the Pacific Islands Forum, released this statement relating to the Declaration for Climate Change Action, the Pacific region and the road to Paris and COP21.

You can read that statement here http://forumsec.org/pages.cfm/newsroom/speeches/2015-2/pacific-islands-forum-leaders-declaration-on-climate-change-action.html