从斐济偏远的亚萨瓦群岛的木制阳台上，气候活动家拉维尼亚·奈瓦卢回忆起礁石曾经如此健康，她的祖父走到海岸线就能带着鱼归来。但那里的生活已经改变了。
rom her wooden veranda in Fiji’s remote Yasawa islands, climate activist Lavenia Naivalu remembers when the reefs were once so healthy, her grandfather would walk to the shoreline and return with fish. But life there has changed.
“老一辈男子曾经用鱼叉捕鱼的那些礁石，不再能提供过去的收获了，”这位44岁的妇女说。“年轻人……现在必须航行到更远的海域，为家人寻找鱼类。”当她眺望着一片被海平面上升侵蚀的白色沙滩时，奈瓦卢痛苦地讲述着她的三个孩子如何“承受气候变化的冲击”。
“The reefs that the older generation of men spearfished in, no longer provide what they once did,” the 44-year-old says. “Young people … now must travel further out to sea to find fish for their families.”As she looks out at a white sandy beach, eaten away by rising sea levels, Naivalu recounts watching painfully as her three children “feel the brunt of changes in the climate.
“我问自己‘他们做错了什么？’”这个问题很个人化，但也是推动她为太平洋岛民追求气候正义的动力之一，随着地球变暖，他们的生活方式正受到威胁。
“I ask myself ‘what did they do wrong?’”The question is personal, but it’s also part of what drives her pursuit of climate justice for Pacific people, whose way of life is being threatened as the planet warms.
在今年的联合国气候谈判（称为第31届缔约方会议）上，该地区将前所未有地成为焦点。下周斐济将在气候峰会前接待各国领导人，奈瓦卢希望借此机会引起人们对土著和太平洋岛国观点的关注，她表示这些观点在全球谈判中常被边缘化。
At this year’s UN climate talks, known as Cop31, the region will be in the spotlight like never before. Next week Fiji will host leaders ahead of the climate summit, where Naivalu hopes to draw attention to Indigenous and Pacific perspectives which she says are often relegated in global negotiations.
根据联合国的数据，尽管太平洋岛国仅占全球排放量的0.02%，但它们却不成比例地承受着气候危机的影响。
The Pacific Islands are disproportionately affected by the climate crisis, despite accounting for just 0.02% of global emissions, according to the United Nations“One thing that triggers me is when somebody else is speaking on my behalf,” she tells the Guardian.
“最让我触动的是当别人代表我发言时，”她告诉《卫报》。“我想直接向所有领导人放大我社区和我所代表的人们的声音。”作为参加斐济会议和在土耳其举行的第31届缔约方会议的土著代表，奈瓦卢一直是她人民的开拓性倡导者。
“I want to amplify the voices of my community and the people that I represent directly to all leaders.”Naivalu, an Indigenous representative participating in the Fiji meeting and the Cop31 summit in Turkey, has been a trailblazing advocate for her people. She was Fiji’s first female mata ni tikina or district representative, overseeing seven village chiefs under the traditionally male-dominated governance system.
她是斐济首位女性mata ni tikina（区代表），在传统上由男性主导的治理体系下监督七位村长。奈瓦卢也是首位入选斐济旅游局的土著代表。
Naivalu was also the first Indigenous representative selected to Fiji’s tourism board. A veteran of past Cop summits, Naivalu – who lives on the island of Nacula in the Yasawa islands – says bringing the climate talks home matters, but she wants discussions to move beyond language that people do not see reflected in their daily lives.
作为历届缔约方大会（Cop）的资深参与者，居住在亚萨瓦群岛纳库拉岛的奈瓦鲁表示，将气候谈判带回家乡固然重要，但她希望讨论能超越那些民众在日常生活中无法感知的语言。
“We talk about climate change, climate finance, about adaptation and mitigation,” she said.
“我们谈论气候变化、气候融资、适应与减缓，”她说，“但我纳库拉的乡亲们不知道什么是气候融资；我们想知道的是行动。”在危机的最前线土耳其和澳大利亚去年达成妥协协议，同意由太平洋地区主办第31届缔约方大会（Cop31）前的筹备会议，以解决关于2026年峰会举办地的僵局。峰会将于11月在土耳其地中海沿岸度假城市安塔利亚举行，而澳大利亚将主持谈判。
“But my people in Nacula don’t know what climate finance is; what we want to know is action.”On the frontline of the crisis Turkey and Australia agreed last year that the Pacific would host preparatory meetings before Cop31 under a compromise deal to resolve a standoff about where the 2026 summit would be held. The summit will be hosted in Turkey’s Mediterranean resort city of Antalya in November, while Australia will chair negotiations.
斐济环境与气候变化部常任秘书西文德拉·迈克尔表示，奈瓦鲁“拉近了谈判室与珊瑚礁的距离”。
Sivendra Michael, Fiji’s permanent secretary for environment and climate change, said Naivalu “closes the distance between negotiating room and the reef.
他说：“斐济将在Cop31上主张直接获得资金、确保适应措施真正落实到社区层面，并让原住民知识被视为证据而非点缀。”
“Fiji will go into Cop31 arguing for direct access to finance, for adaptation that is actually delivered at community level, and for Indigenous knowledge to be treated as evidence rather than decoration,” he said.
“我们呼吁世界信任太平洋岛国的领导力。当太平洋领导力不再局限于我这样的官员时，这一论点将更有说服力。”在纳库拉村长大的奈瓦鲁亲眼目睹了气候危机的冲击。
“We are asking the world to trust Pacific leadership. That argument is far stronger when Pacific leadership is not confined to officials like me.”Having grown up in Nacula village, Naivalu has seen the impact of the climate crisis first-hand.
她说：“过去维持村庄生计的水源现已干涸，而海水日益威胁着人工挖掘的水井。”
“Water sources that used to sustain our village are now drying up, while seawater increasingly threatens the hand-dug wells,” she said.
纳库拉正竭力适应气候变化——家庭现在会为旱季储存饮用水，妇女们则腌制保存食物。
Nacula is doing its best to adapt to climate change – families now store drinking water for dry periods and women preserve food.
村长拉图·马纳萨·奈卡索瓦洛表示，他看到了奈瓦鲁倡导工作的价值。
Village chief, Ratu Manasa Naikasowalo, said he sees the value of Naivalu’s advocacy.
拉图说：“她的工作帮助将重要联系和切实举措带回社区，包括粮食安全、制盐、珊瑚种植和食物保存项目。”
“Her work has helped bring important connections and practical initiatives back to the community, including food security, salt making, coral planting and food-preservation programmes,” Ratu said.
纳伊瓦卢深知，适应工作不能仅靠前线社区独自承担，她也亲眼目睹了缔约方大会（COP）上的讨论与国内实际行动之间的差距。
Naivalu knows adaptation cannot be left solely to frontline communities, and has witnessed the gap between Cop discussions and what happens at home.
下周在斐济，她将把原住民社区的亲身经历带入COP31进程，推动他们的声音被听见，而在此时领导人们正在就气候融资、适应、损失与损害，以及将全球变暖控制在1.5摄氏度以内进行谈判。
In Fiji next week, she will be bring the lived experiences of Indigenous communities into the Cop31 process, pushing for their voices to be heard as leaders negotiate climate finance, adaptation, loss and damage, and keeping global warming within 1.5C.
“我参加COP不是为了纠结文本和括号；我参加COP是为了与我相信能够帮助纳库拉人民的组织建立合作伙伴关系。”
“I don’t attend Cop to worry about texts and brackets; I attend Cop to forge partnerships with organisations that I believe can help the people of Nacula.”