Summit puts focus on tiny Pacific islands

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François Gemenne, a fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations in Paris, spent two months in Tuvalu in 2007 helping research the report. He worries that some officials there may have a mistaken tendency to "attribute any environmental problem to climate change." He noted that most of the vehicles driven in Tuvalu are SUVs. "They have to import everything," said Gemenne, who is in Copenhagen for the summit. "It's a tough place to live."

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