German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has assured the Pacific island states of her continued support in the fight against the consequences of climate change. “The climate crisis is literally washing the ground away from under the feet of the people here,” she said during a visit to Fiji, the first German foreign minister to visit the island. “We will not leave the region alone, not alone with the greatest security challenge of this century, the climate crisis.” Fiji is one of the 14 island states in the South Pacific that account for a negligible proportion of global emissions of climate-d…