Hi it is Ulamila here, the climate witness from the Cook Islands with this tcktcktck.org campaign.

I am here in New York, been here since last Thursday and maximising every opportunity given to me to spread the word that global warming must stop! It has to stop, global leaders will have to step up and give us a moral and binding deal in Copenhagen.

Many a time I have been asked this question by journalists in New York, "what is it really you want out of Copenhagen?". I will tell them many words with the gist of my answers being that the leaders are running out of time, they have to act now, today, they have to cut what is happening, cut carbon emission drastically because global warming is lethal and dangerous.

I live on the coast in the Cook Islands, when the mean-high tide sets in my front lawn is a danger zone to my children. My mother used to eat fish from the lagoon but today it is a health risk to catch fish in the lagoon due to Ciguatera (a kind of fish poisoning, influenced by climate change). Our seasons are messed up. You see my ancestors and my parents planted, fished, and harvested according to the weather and this knowledge was orally passed down through generations - our traditional seasonal calendar. Today, we cannot rely on the chain of events that take place when expected. I don't know much about the science of climate change but I can tell you -- the climate is changing.

Ula, works with a media network in the Pacific called Pacific Wave. They raise awareness about issues including climate change and they are calling on governments for action.