Climate Change
The slow onset climate change realities is an EXISTENTIAL ISSUE for Tuvalu. Whilst dependent on the sea for sustenance and maintenance; there is little resilience to its power and destruction.
The existence of our sovereign State is in grave jeopardy.
• Tuvalu can become the first ENDAGERED HUMAN BEINGS.
• There is no climate change refugee status under international law
• Boarder controls and immigration laws are sovereign institutions.
Experts recommend Tuvalu develop risk-averse, high tech, and sophisticated warning systems. But what can Tuvalu do when a tsunami hits and the nearest neighbor is 750 km away. We do not have a choice of inner land or higher grounds to run to!
For further information on this issue, click on these useful websites:
- Tuvalu’s Views on the Possible Security Implications of Climate Change to be included in the report of the UN Secretary General to the UN General Assembly 64th Session.
- Adapting to climate change in Tuvalu | Yusuke Taishi
- Pacific Country Report Sea Level & Climate: Their Present State (2010)
- The frontline of climate change
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