Contributing So Little, Suffering So Much

Host: Just now you mentioned the tourism. And tourism is a key industry in Pacific Island countries. What is the best way to protect this industry from the potential effects of the global warming?

Sam Savou: I think the Pacific is trying to do all they can to sustain the tourism industry while they bring in the clean energy and all that. But I think the Pacific contribute so little to what’s happening in the bigger part of the world, in global warming. I think the research shows that the Pacific contributes 0.3 percent to global warming, but the effects on the Pacific is so big, we don’t have the resources, nor do we have the technology to fight it. We are doing what we can. So we need the adaptation fund to be able to sustain or to help the Pacific Island countries. Not only in the Pacific, the Caribbean, also in the African Caribbean region to help them as well, to help all the small island countries to adapt to what’s happening now, because climate change is bigger than us, and I think our economy won’t be able to sustain it.