Surging seas are coming for us all, warns UN chief

The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has said that big polluters have a clear responsibility to cut emissions or risk a worldwide catastrophe.

- Agencies

"The Pacific is today the most vulnerable area of the world," he told the BBC at the Pacific Island Forum Leaders Meeting in Tonga.

"There is an enormous injustice in relation to the Pacific and it's the reason I am here." "The small islands don't contribute to climate change but everything that happens because of climate change is multiplied here." But eventually the "surging seas are coming for us all," he warned in a speech at the forum, as the UN releases two separate reports on rising sea levels and how they threaten Pacific island nations.