Pacific islands make last-ditch plea to world before Paris climate change talks

'Unless the world acts decisively in coming weeks, the Pacific as we know it is doomed,' says Fijian prime minister Frank Bainimarama

Amid the rustling palm trees, blissed newlyweds and colourful attire of a tropical island resort, Pacific leaders have been getting blunt with wealthy nations about the unfolding calamity of climate change that is gradually gnawing away their remote idylls.

We in the Pacific are innocent bystanders in the greatest act of folly of any age