Fiji, Nov. 6 -- Pacific countries are heading into the climate talks in Turkiye next week demanding more climate finance while warning that the region cannot protect its people and resources without money that is easier to access.

The call comes as Pacific leaders prepare to defend the 1.5degC warming limit and push for more grants, greater adaptation funding and stronger action on loss and damage.

Fiji's Minister for Climate Change, Lynda Tabuya, says the Pacific is not going to lower its climate goals but developed countries must provide the resources needed to meet them.

"The Pacific did not come to renegotiate its ambition; it came to secure the means to deliver it. Ambition without finance, technology and the capacity to use them ...