Tuvalu delegate, Ian Fry, makes impassioned plea in Copenhagen for binding agreement to save low-lying island states

Tuvalu delegate, Ian Fry, makes impassioned plea in Copenhagen for binding agreement to save low-lying island states

From Wonk Room, Think Progress, December 12, 2009

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/200... 12/12/09: Ian Fry, the Tuvalu delegate to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, makes an impassioned plea for legally binding agreements to be made by world leaders to save his nation and other low-lying island states.

He notes that is is "an irony of the modern world that the fate of the world is being determined by some senators in the US Congress," and suggests that for President Obama to earn his Nobel Peace Prize by addressing the greatest threat to humanity and to security: climate change.

Tearfully, he concludes: "The fate of my country rests in your hands."

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUyZOgcHn-Q