Dozens of Pacific Island nations are disturbed over not finding themselves on the UN Climate Conference globe.

Many small islands such as the Cook Islands or the Maldives were omitted from a 15-foot hanging globe at the Copenhagen climate summit.

Could this be a foreshadowing of what lies in their future as rising sea levels threaten to drown them out?

[Rikana Toroma, Delegate, Cook Islands]:
"We should be on that map because we're here in Copenhagen and we do represent the Cook Islands. So we just want the world to know that we Cook Islanders do exist and that climate change has a huge impact on our islands - especially sea level rise. So yeah, we should be on their globe."

To compensate for the absence of the islands, someone had scribbled "Cook Islands" on the globe.

Cape Verde's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Antonio Pedro Monteiro Lima, joined the protesters.

[Antonio Pedro Monteiro Lima, Permanent UN Representative, Cape Verde]:
"The island states are the sentinel of the world, we are the first to go. But after us, if you forget us, a lot of people are going to lose and the planet is going to lose of course. We are 43 states, 43 states. We are little states but we are not little mind. Okay? And we want to survive."

The Pacific Island nations are members of the Alliance of Small Island States.

The group’s 43 members fear that rising sea levels could wipe them off the map if the world temperature rise exceeds 1.5 degrees Celsius.