Leader after leader recounted climate disasters, with each one seeming to top the other. Grenada's prime minister Dickon Mitchell detailed a 15-month drought at the beginning of the year giving way to a Category 5 Hurricane Beryl.
"At this very moment, as I stand here yet again, my island has been devastated by flash flooding, landslides and the deluge of excessive rainfall, all in the space of a matter of a couple hours," Mitchell said.
"It may be small island developing states today. It will be Spain tomorrow. It will be Florida the day after. It's one planet."
Grenada's premier wasn't the only small island nation leader who came with fighting words.
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