This year’s annual meeting of the UN Climate Change Conference is taking place in Poland. More than 40 small island nations have banded together to talk about their concerns. Global climate change looks like a really bad situation for nations such as Samoa, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Barbados, Maldives, Philippines and Fiji. They have a lot to lose if current predictions of large global sea level rises do happen, just like other beachfront residential and resort areas around the world.

The threatened countries would like to see real worldwide progress in curbing emissions and hopefully preventing rapid sea level rises. You can read about the issues here: Threatened Island Nations.
For details on the Poznan, Poland conference, see Climate Change Conference. This is an important conference as the world leaders are trying to decide on the baselines for a new international climate change treaty when the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.