Fiji, June 22 -- Tuvalu's Governor-General, Reverend Sir Tofiga Vaevalu Falani, has called for urgent global action on climate mobility, telling an international gathering in Berlin that Tuvalu is confronting an unprecedented challenge as climate change threatens its future.

Addressing the Berlin Climate Mobility Forum, a high-level gathering of world leaders, policymakers, experts and communities affected by climate change, Sir Falani urged the international community to recognise the unique challenges facing Tuvalu.

In his address to delegates from around the world, the Governor-General said Tuvalu's situation goes beyond a national crisis.

"Tuvalu speaks today not merely as a nation facing a crisis, but as a people facing an existen...