Fiji, Sept. 16 -- Pacific youth are calling for stronger climate action to protect not only lives and livelihoods but also culture, identity and communities facing growing climate impacts.

The call was made by Marshall Islands youth practitioner Christin Batol during the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts (WIM ExCom) in Majuro.

Batol, a Youth Field Practitioner with Jo-Jikum's Strengthening Manit (Culture) through Non-Economic Loss and Damage project, told the Committee that her work focuses on documenting what young people say they are losing because of climate change.

"My name is Christin Batol, and I'm from the Republic of Marshall Islan...