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How a Group of Students in the Pacific Islands Reshaped Global Climate Law

They watched climate change ravage their home countries as rich, polluting nations did nothing. Then they had an idea.

© Adam Ferguson for The New York Times

Madeleine Lavemai, left, and Sulia Makasini were students from Tonga attending the University of the South Pacific when, in 2019, an environmental-law professor encouraged his class to draft a letter.
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