“Climate change is a challenge that few want to take on, but the price of inaction is so high”. This statement marks part of the speech by Ms. Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, Civil Society Representative from the Marshall Islands, who was selected from over 500 applicants to address the opening of the United Nations Climate Summit in 2014.

World champion poet and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Emtithal (Emi) Mahmoud’s wrote the poem, Di Baladna, which means Our Land in Arabic, following a series of discussions with refugees living on the front lines of the climate crisis in Bangladesh, Cameroon, and Jordan.