SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt ¨C Fiji¡¯s Sivendra Michael was just 1 year old when Pacific island nations first sought help in 1991 through planned U.N. climate negotiations to deal with expected ¡°loss and damage¡± from rising seas and other climate change impacts.
This year, the 32-year-old, a disaster risk management and development expert who just earned his Ph.D., will be pushing to finally make that help a reality as a formal negotiator on ¡°loss and damage¡± and other issues for his country at COP27 in Egypt.
¡°They are negotiating our future and it¡¯s only right for us to be at the table,¡± said Michael, one of 60 newly trained youth from 27 countries acting as full-fledged climate negotiators at the U.N. talks this year.
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