22 August, 2017

Tributes pour in to Marshallese “climate hero” Tony de Brum

Marshall Islands climate ambassador Tony de Brum died aged 72 on Tuesday at his home in Majuro, surrounded by family.
Tony de Brum at the 2015 Paris climate summit.
As former foreign minister, he led negotiations for a tough 1.5C global warming limit at the 2015 Paris climate summit. This was crucial to give his low-lying island home a chance of survival amid rising sea levels, he argued.

Having witnessed the harm wreaked by US nuclear bomb tests on Bikini atoll as a child, de Brum was also a lifelong campaigner for reparations and disarmament.

The country’s president Hilda Heine announced his death “with great sadness and a very heavy heart”.


Read Megan Darby’s ClimateHome story - “Tributes pour in to Marshallese “climate hero” Tony de Brum.”

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