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United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties. (2013, February 28). Report of
the Conference of the Parties on its eighteenth session, held in Doha from 26 November to 8 December 2012
(FCCC/CP/2012/8/Add.1). Retrieved on May 16, 2013, from: http://undocs.org/FCCC/CP/2012/8/Add.1.
This source is the official outcome of the eighteenth Conference of Parties (CoP) of the UNFCCC,
held in Doha in December 2012 and includes all decisions made there. Of particular relevance for
this topic is Decision 3/CP.18, which for the first time calls for an international mechanism to
address loss and damage associated with climate change impacts in particularly vulnerable
developing countries. Delegates should consider this decision as their mandate to research and
negotiate policy options to establish such a mechanism.
Yoon-Mi, K. (2012, August 13). 윌리 텔라비 투발루 총리 “바닷물 들어와도 국토 포기 안해” (Tuvalu Prime
Minister Willy Telavi…). The Science. Retrieved on July 14, 2013, from:
http://news.dongascience.com/PHP/NewsView.php?kisaid=20120813100000000064.
This Korean news article addresses the common misconception that the Tuvaluan government is
voluntarily giving up territory. The truth is that Tuvaluans continue to hold out, even though sea
levels are rising, which directly threatens them. At the Yeosu Declaration Forum 2012, the Prime
Minister of Tuvalu, H.E. Willy Telavi strongly announced that the Tuvaluan people will never
abandon their land and therefore and for the sake of other small island states in a similar
situation, the international community must find a consensus in climate policy rather sooner than
later.