UN General Assembly
2014

the Kyoto Protocol. Within our discussions, migration should not be an option. As the young mother Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner from the Marshall Islands put it so beautifully on Tuesday, “No one is moving. No one is losing their homeland. No one is becoming a climate change refugee”. Our small island nations, which are the first to feel the impacts of climate change, the first to feel the impacts of diminished marine resources and the first to wet our feet in sea-level rise, are ready and willing to lead. We do not call for action from developed nations that we are not willing to take ourselves. Last year, my country committed, under the Majuro Declaration for Climate Leadership, to a 20 per cent contribution of renewable energy to the energy mix and a 30 per cent reduction in energy consumption by 2020. We are well on the way to achieving those goals. Since its independence, Palau has been blessed with strong partnerships. For over 50 years, the United States has provided its support and friendship. Without