NYT > World News How a Group of Students in the Pacific Islands Reshaped Global Climate Law Par :Brooke Jarvis 10 septembre 2025 à 05:02 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 TimesMadeleine 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.