WWF South Pacific have criticized and expressed concern over the outcome of the recent G8 Leaders meeting in Japan.
G8 is an international forum where world's leading industrialised nations meet once a year to discuss priority issues affecting the world.
WWF South Pacific's Climatic Change campaigner Jyotishma Naicker said G8 leaders had failed to boost international climate negotiations at their recent Toyako summit.
Ms Naicker said the outcomes of the G8 meeting in Japan were not sufficient to prevent dangerous impacts of climate change occurring in the Pacific.
She has the G8 has only committed to a 50 per cent reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050 when the expectation for the G8 was to commit to mandatory reductions in global emissions of climate changing gases were at least 40 per cent reduction by 2020 and 80 per cent by 2050.
"The G8 must also formally commit, as per their obligations under the UNFCCC to provide financial and technical support for adaptation and mitigation in vulnerable countries.
"Funding for adaptation must be additional to normal overseas development assistance, and in the form of grants. However, the G8 summit said they would continue to cooperate with small islands states on this issue, but did not commit any confirmed level of monetary assistance."
WWF-main body has reminded G8 leaders that the science clearly outlines an urgent need to cut global emissions way more than 50 per cent by 2050 to avoid the worst impacts of climate change
WWF said the summit confirmed a recent trend that industrialized countries show less rather than more of the leadership so urgently needed.
The eight countries that make up the G8 forum are Russia, United States, The United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, France, Italy and Canada.
