Fiji, Sept. 16 -- Climate change is destroying more than homes and livelihoods across the Pacific - it is eroding Indigenous cultures, disrupting ancient traditions and severing communities' ties to their ancestral lands and oceans, says human rights lawyer Julian Aguon.

Aguon, an Indigenous Chamorro lawyer from Guam and founder of Blue Ocean Law, says the cultural and spiritual damage caused by climate change must be recognised as a human rights violation.

He was part of the legal team that represented Vanuatu in the campaign that led to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issuing its landmark advisory opinion last year on states' obligations to address climate change.

"Climate change is unraveling the very terms by which people ...