Islands Business: A climate change academic says the prognosis for small island states in the long-term is not good, and is getting bleaker by the decade. Pacific leaders made a commitment at the Pacific Islands Forum to urgently cut green house gas emissions and become leaders in the fight to combat climate change. Many of the island nations promise to be using at least 50 percent renewable energy by 2020, and some want to join Tokelau and aim for 100 percent. The director of Victoria Universitys post-graduate...