Jakarta (ANTARA) – Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi has called on countries to unite in facing the threat caused by the rise in sea levels.She gave the call on Thursday (September 21, 2023) at a breakfast summit during the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, which was co-hosted by Tuvalu, Palau, Marshall Islands, and the UN Global Center for Climate Mobility.

“Sea-level rise is a real threat that threatens our survival so we must unite to overcome it,” she said while issuing an online press statement, which was accessed on the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ YouTube channel from here on Friday.

Indonesia, as an archipelagic country that is vulnerable to the impacts of rising sea levels due to climate change, has called for three concrete actions that countries can take to respond to the threat.

First, countries must cooperate in preventing and mitigating the sea-level rise by reducing emissions and slowing the rate of climate change, Minister Marsudi said.

“Even if global warming is capped at 1.5 degrees Celsius, it will not be able to withstand rising sea levels,” she warned.

Source: Antara News Agency