World News: Former US President Obama says ‘act now’ to help island nations – Gulf Digital News

World News: Former US President Obama says ‘act now’ to help island nations – Gulf Digital News

GLASGOW - Former U.S. President Barack Obama called on the U.N. climate conference in Glasgow on Monday to address the risks that island nations face from rising sea levels.

Obama said their tales at the 2015 climate talks had been crucial to the resulting Paris Agreement, which commits countries to holding the rise in the average global temperature to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.

"I have been shaped by my experience growing up in Hawaii," Obama said, adding: "we have to act now to help with adaptation and resilience".