The impacts of climate change are not just a forecasted threat on the Kiribati island of Abaiang. The village of Tebunginako relocated 15 years ago due to the effects of severe coastal erosion and saltwater intrusion. Captions and Photo source: Department of Foreign Affairs
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The lawyer for the Kiribati man who has lost his bid to be declared a climate change refugee says he and his family are terrified of returning home…
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Should International Refugee Law Accommodate Climate Change? United Nations (07-15-2014)
Can the United Nations help to protect people seeking safety abroad if their homes and jobs are destroyed by prolonged drought, rising sea levels or other climate change-related phenomena in the same way as if they were displaced by war or human rights abuses? The short answer, today anyway, is no. (!)…
Kiribati President Purchases Resettlement Land as Precaution Against Rising Sea, IPS News (06-09-2014)
Kiribati’s president, Anote Tong, said he bought land in Vanua Levu, Fiji’s second-largest island, so that his 103,000 people will have some high ground to go to when a rising sea makes his nation of 33 low-lying coral atolls unliveable…
Pacific Island Nation of Kiribati, Slideshow And Video, Guardian UK (06-14-2013)
Reuters photographer David Gray spent time documenting life in the central Pacific island nation of Kiribati, a chain of 33 atolls and islands that stand just metres above sea level, spread over a huge expanse of otherwise empty ocean…
A Video: Kiribati Conference: Voices From the South Pacific – Part II (11-19-2010)
Will Pacific Island Nations Disappear as Seas Rise? National Geographic (02-15-2015)
It’s a question that leaders of Pacific Island states have been asking for decades. As a warming climate drives sea levels upward, low-lying island nations face an uncertain future—or no future at all, say these leaders, who warn of their nations’ imminent disappearance…
