Port Vila, Vanuatu, July 24, 2025 (AFP) - Vanuatu island chief 'very impressed' by global climate decision

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The paramount chief of a volcanic island in Vanuatu said Thursday he was "very impressed" by a global court's declaration that countries must tackle climate change. "We have been waiting for this decision for a long time because we have been victims of this climate change for the past two decades," George Bumseng, the highest chief of the Pacific archipelago's cyclone-prone island of Ambrym, told AFP. djw/sft/tym ...

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