Voices of Pacific islander are calling for action on the United Nations Climate Summit in New York. The author of this poem Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner addressed already her thoughts and feelings to the Opening Ceremony of the UN Small Developing Islands Conference in Apia, Samoa in September 2014 :
On 23 September 2014, I addressed the Opening Ceremony of the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Summit. I performed my new poem entitled “Dear Matafele Peinem” written to my daughter.