Fiji, Oct. 23 -- The Pacific Islands Climate Action Network (PICAN) has warned that current global climate policies could drive temperatures up by 2.8degC this century, putting Pacific communities at greater risk of irreversible losses.
Responding to the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) Emissions Gap Report 2026: The Point of Return, PICAN says governments must urgently cut emissions rather than rely on uncertain future technologies to bring temperatures back down.
"Every fraction of a degree above 1.5degC carries consequences for our islands, our oceans and our people.
"Overshoot will bring irreversible losses, and no promise to bring temperatures back down decades from now can guarantee that what has been lost will ever be...