COP 22

RNZ reports they are meeting at the COP 22 meeting in Morocco.

The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) said the chant of "1.5 to stay alive" has been given wider recognition within the Paris Agreement, which was produced at last year's COP meeting.

SPREP said that by 2018, a special report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and the related global greenhouse gas emissions will be released, giving further weight to the chants of "1.5 to stay alive".

RNZ reports the Vanuatu Government's Sam Mike Waiwai made a presentation on the topic at a two-day conference which focused on indigenous knowledge and climate change.

UNESCO and the French National Centre for Scientific Research and other international bodies ran the event.

Vanuatu's Climate Change Minister, Ham Lini, is at the conference and will present a statement there.

COP 22, which comes just after the Paris Agreement has been put into force, runs until the end of next week.