Tony de Brum obituary

Climate change campaigner and Marshall Islands politician who was instrumental in securing the Paris agreementTo live on one of the Pacific atolls is to come face to face with climate change on a daily basis. Few people in the world had such personal experience as Tony de Brum of the realities of sea level rises and storm surges, of warmer seas, receding beaches and abandoned land. Fewer still have been able to turn that experience into international action to save the islands, and the rest of t