In this task, a passage will be given and the goal is to identify an event from the passage. An event is defined as a single word representing something that happened, is happening, or may happen. An event can be factual or hypothetical, positive or negative, certain or uncertain. While most events are based on verbs, an event can also be based on a noun (ex. storm, snow, rainfall) or a copula verb (is, was, been, etc.). The event must not be a pronoun or an adjective. For noun events with multiple words, use the last word in the phrase as event.
One example: Passage: I submitted the hit. The hit was approved, and then I was paid.
Solution is here: approved
Explanation: There are three events in this passage (i) submission event ("submitted") (ii) the approval event ("approved"), and (iii) the payment event ("paid"). You can use any one of them as an output.

Now, solve this: Passage: In a statement issued here Thursday, Oxfam appealed to the delegates attending the ongoing United Nations conference on climate change to save the lives of pastoral communities such as the Turkana of northern Kenya. "Governments meeting at the UN climate change conference in Nairobi only have to look to a few hundred miles north to see how climate change is having an immediate and devastating effect on people's lives," said Antonio Hill, senior policy adviser of Oxfam.
Solution:
statement