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The United Nations climate change summit COP29 has "once again ignored" the Pacific Islands, a group of regional climate advocacy organisations say.

The 'Nauru Economic and Climate Resilience Citizenship Programme' was announced at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan on Thursday.

Prime Minister Feleti Teo is pushing for the new pledge, known as the New Collective Qualifying Goal, to be significantly higher than the previous goal of US$100 billion a year. Audio

Tonga's Prime Minister Hu'akavameiliku has urged leaders from small island nations "not be disheartened," despite the "disappointing outcomes" of past UN climate summits.

The environment organisation's chief Pacific campaigner described the comments by Azerbaijan's president that oil and gas are a "gift of God" as "disappointing".

António Guterres says the world is in the "final countdown" to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius at the UN climate change conference in Azerbaijan.

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Opinion - Climate change impacts everyone around the world. But it is the Pacific communities that have been unfairly placed on the front line of this escalating crisis, writes Hu'akavameiliku.

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