wife's
as you know there's been just incredible
devastation in the Philippines from
a a a tsunami
that are typhoon I should say that
I am we don't even know the extent that this point
%uh the devastation there still really almost unable to get
any figures but its its thousands upon thousands of people
have died and have been lost in this typhoon
that ravaged the Philippines pose
I guess now for five days ago and
hearing is yep sono e is the climate change representative
to the UN climate meeting in Warsaw
he is on a up fast
in solidarity with those people in Philippines the
trying to get the nation's at this
meeting to to do something about climate change
this is a three-minute clip it is incredibly moving
and I'm it's been cut up a bit but the
here it is and I'll much status
my country is being bested by dr. hailstorm called super typhoon high yen
we remain a certain a saloon full extent of the damage
and devastation as information trickle seen agonizingly slow manner because
power lines and communication lines have been cut off and me
take a while before they are restored initial assessment showed up high and
left a wake of massive destruction
that this unprecedented and thinkable and horrific
in the devastation ok
be staggering they struggle to find words
even for the images to be /c but on the news coverage
in the struggle to find words to describe
however I feel about the losses
up to the shower I agonized
leaping forward to the freedom of my very own relatives
what gives me renewed strength your
in great relief is that my own brother has communicated to us
and he had serb I am the onslaught I speak for my delegation
but bear high-speed
speak for the countless people who will no longer be able to speak for
themselves
after perishing from the storm I speak also for those who have been more fun
by the storm I speak for those a.m. but the people now racing against time to
save survivors and alleviate the suffering of the people affected
we can be crafted action now to ensure that be prevent a future where super
typhoons become
a way of life can we ever had been building with objective
of the Convention which is to prevent be injurious androgenic
impair friends with the climate system
by failing to meet the objective the convention me we may have ratified
our own doom re have to confront the issue of loss and damage
loss and damage is a reality today across the world
we cannot solve climate change when we seek to spew more emissions
in solidarity with my countrymen were struggling to find food back home
and with my brother was not had food for the last three days
sweep all due respect mister president and I mean no disrespect for your
kind must be balladeer
I will now commence a ball in Barrie fasting for the Playmate peace means
I will ball and buyer you refrain from eating food during this call
and P lemme a meaningful outcome is inside
and built concrete they're just have been made to ensure mobilization of
resources for the Green Climate Fund
we cannot afford before cob we didn't empty GCF
and feel the promise of debris leash operationalization of a loss and damage
mechanisms been fulfilled
and build there is a sure answer in finance for adaptation
and deal with the real ambition and climate action in accordance with the
principles we have so up
upheld mister president peace process
has been called a farce it has been called in and while carbon-intensive
gathering of useless
frequent fliers it does also been called saving the moral to be
we can fix this we can stop this madness
I am really moving and look you know
obviously the damage that was done
in the Philippines is not all attributable
to climate change you have more people
I'll living in the the
the primary cities
and coastal areas than they were in the past
but you've got sea levels rising
that AQ certainly contributed to this there's a lot of research that shows
that
the warming I love the oceans is contributing to
greater speeds in greater size in more extreme
typhoons so obviously
this is part of the mix
which is not to say that if we didn't have the
ongoing global climate change there wouldn't be typhoon teachers
the level up the destruction the level power at the storm's
is certainly in some fashion a tribunal
to climate change