UN General Assembly
2010

glacial progress in the negotiating sessions and climate change meetings of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. At the same time, we are growing increasingly alarmed by the prospect of shrinking ambitions for the meeting in Cancún, Mexico, later this year. That is not an acceptable response to a crisis of enormous proportions, certainly not for Micronesia and not for any of the small island developing States, who need fast action. This is an issue of survival for us. We must find a better response — a genuine response that supports mitigation and adaptation measures that will achieve significant reductions in 10-55109 12 greenhouse gas emissions and thus preserve the integrity of our Earth’s environment and also the livelihoods of its inhabitants. My island nation and the small island developing States, for that matter, are not major contributors to the causes of climate change. All present know that. But we are nevertheless determined in our efforts to contribute to finding solutions. For its part, Micronesia continues to take the lead to combat climate change by utilizing the opportunities