In 2023, Samoa joined Palau and Colombia in formally endorsing Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative at the UN Climate Change Conference. A year earlier at COP27, two Pacific Island nations became the very first countries in the world to endorse it. One was Vanuatu. Which low-lying Polynesian atoll nation was the other?

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Tuvalu. At the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference, Tuvalu became one of the first two countries, alongside Vanuatu, to endorse the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative. Samoa later formally endorsed the same treaty at the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference, along with Palau and Colombia.