Pacific climate pioneer still fears for island nation's future

Kiribati's President Anote Tong answers a question during an interview at the United Nations conference on climate change.[AFP]

A founding father of the Pacific climate movement on Thursday welcomed an international court's decision on global warming but said he fears for the future of his almost 30 grandchildren on low-lying Kiribati.

Kiribati, a climate-threatened archipelago that is home to some 130,000 people, sits barely two metres (6.5 feet) above sea level, has little freshwater, no rivers and limited fertile land.