'We will not allow others to determine our fate': Pacific nations dial up pressure on Australia's fossil fuel exports

Tuvalu's Prime Minister Feleti Teo took to a stage in Apia, Samoa, on Thursday morning to say something pointed. Planned fossil fuel expansions in nations such as Australia represented, for his nation, a "death sentence." The phrase "death sentence," Teo said, had not been chosen lightly. He followed up with this: "We will not sit quietly and allow others to determine our fate."