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Vanishing homeland leaves people with nowhere to go

12 Feb 2013 Sydney Morning Herald

On an average day in Kiribati we can look out across our calm and peaceful lagoons and see people fishing and going about their daily business and everything is at it has been for many generations.

But this is deceptive. We now know that we are being subjected to a gradual, creeping and insidious process: climate change. This directly threatens the future of our homeland - our people will be scattered, and the survival of our unique culture,…

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Added by Stacey King on February 12, 2013 at 8:50am — No Comments

Pacific islanders reflect 'human face' of climate change

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Residents of Tuvalu in the South Pacific will show audiences at Royce Hall and venues across the country their cultural heritage in music and dance. Performers in "Water is Rising: Music and Dance amid Climate Change," created by Emerita Professor Judy Mitoma, are also coming from the island nations of Tokelau and Kiribati to voice their concern about the rising sea levels caused by…
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Added by Stacey King on October 11, 2011 at 9:00am — No Comments

Kiribati considers floating islands to combat sea levels

ABC RADIO NEWS Updated September 07, 2011 14:10:00

The small Pacific island nation of Kiribati has indicated it's considering building what it describes as 'floating islands' to deal with rising sea levels. The country's president has discussed the idea at the Pacific Islands Forum in New Zealand, where regional leaders are looking at ways to deal with climate change.

(Simon Cullen)

 

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Added by Stacey King on September 7, 2011 at 4:22pm — No Comments

Energy Resources - Climate change threatening island nations - Kiribati

Published: Sept. 6, 2011 at 10:00 AM 
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SOUTH TARAWA, Kiribati, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- High tides in island nations in the Pacific Ocean are indicative of the global threat posed by climate change, the U.N. secretary general…
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Added by Stacey King on September 7, 2011 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Nauru welcomes UNSC climate change position

Pacific Beat RADIO AUSTRALIA  Updated July 27, 2011 16:59:01

Nauru's President says a United Nations Security Council meeting in New York has taken a step towards recognising climate change as a global security threat. Marcus Stephen says they didn't go as far as Nauru and other small island states would have liked. There had been talk of setting up a United Nations force which could intervene in conflicts caused by climate change, which would be called "Green Helmets", but that idea…

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Added by Stacey King on July 28, 2011 at 8:57am — No Comments

Scientists fight for credibility amid climate change slurs

RADIO AUSTRALIA - PACIFIC BEAT Updated June 20, 2011 08:05:25

In an unprecedented move, a group of Australia's top scientists has united in a new campaign to defend their credibility.



Today more than 2 hundred will converge on Canberra to call on politicians to help stop the misinformation in the climate debate.



Their concern is that the hysteria has escalated and is spilling over into…

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Added by Stacey King on June 21, 2011 at 11:39am — No Comments

Sea wall no longer an option for some Kiribati communities

PACIFIC BEAT - RADIO AUSTRALIA Updated March 8, 2011 17:51:58

The President of Kiribati says an increasing number of the country's citizens are asking to be relocated because of rising sea waters.



Anote Tong, says Kiribati is in urgent need of funding to manage rising sea levels - and to move whole village communities.



Mr Tong has also raised concerns that some of the nation's young…

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Added by Stacey King on March 9, 2011 at 9:07am — 2 Comments

Confronting climate change: Cancun shifts to adaptation

By Chris Cermak Dec 10, 2010, 16:36 GMT



Cancun, Mexico - Citizens of Kiribati have a simple but expensive demand for a sea wall to keep their small island from vanishing into the Pacific Ocean as global warming causes a rise in sea levels round the globe.

Anote Tong, the island's president, said he always gives them the same answer: 'We don't have the resources.' Protection from rising sea levels could run in the hundreds of millions of…

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Added by Stacey King on December 11, 2010 at 6:34pm — No Comments

Fighting for survival in Cancun - Pelenise video interview

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Added by Stacey King on December 8, 2010 at 4:57pm — No Comments

RCL Chairman's Rehabilitation Update: Mining of Coral Pinnacle on Banaba (Ocean Island) for infrastructural upgrading



Dear Fellow Banabans,

Greetings to you all, yes I guess things are moving at a very fast pace that I need to update all of you in regard our meeting with the Kiribati Government.

From the onset, RCL in 2009 clearly defined its April Meeting a resolution to rehabilitate Ocean Island. The resolution passed seeks the majority mandate of the Banaban people from all of the four…

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Added by Stacey King on October 16, 2010 at 8:30pm — 3 Comments

Tuvalu PM vows to continue climate fight

PACIFIC BEAT - ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA Updated October 6, 2010 10:44:46

Tuvalu's new prime minister, Maatia Toafa, faces a number of distinct challenges - ruling a country that has become the face of climate change, but also keeping on the right foot with the 11,000 people he shares just 26 square kilometres with.

His new government has also had a very busy initiation with his election, that of the speaker, and the celebration of 32 years of independence on October 1st - all within…

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Added by Stacey King on October 11, 2010 at 1:34pm — No Comments

Regional program aims to 'climate proof' Pacific infrastructure

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA Updated May 14, 2010 09:52:37

Adapting to the adverse effects of current and future changes in climate is a reality that a five year regional project will help Pacific communities put into action. The Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change Project (PACC) will bring a total of US$13.125 million dollars into 13 Pacific Island countries. This funding will help start adaptation projects on the ground in three major climate…

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Added by Stacey King on May 15, 2010 at 9:01am — No Comments

Climate change and our identity

Monday, 19 April 2010 12:07 SOLOMON STAR

IMAGINE being forced out of your island due to rising sea level as a result of global warming and climate change.

Its not an easy decision to make, but rather a new a phenomenon that will soon emerge facing vulnerable pacific Island nations.

The challenge from climate change will soon impact on islanders and their livelihood, including their vital natural resources: underground water, food crops, and even infrastructure, are at risk…

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Added by Stacey King on April 19, 2010 at 9:10pm — No Comments

The Tides of Change

The Yale Globalist Wednesday, 30 December 2009 | Jessica Shor



On the isolated atolls of Kiribati, climate change is more than an abstract threat.




Thousands of years of coral accumulation have created Kiribati's 33 narrow atolls, most of which lie less than two meters above sea level. (Flickr Creative… Continue

Added by Stacey King on December 31, 2009 at 10:47am — No Comments

Tuvalu rep in Copenhagen spawns unprecedented walk-out

ABC Radio Australia

Updated December 10, 2009 10:14:04



Tuvalu has caused quite a stir at the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen with the island's representative pleading with delegates to come up with a legally binding agreement, then in an unprecedented move stormed-out, closing the session until the afternoon.



Tuvalu's call comes as divisions between the countries… Continue

Added by Stacey King on December 10, 2009 at 8:38pm — No Comments

Plea to see human face of crisis

Catholic Leader By: Robin Williams Published: 13 December 2009



EDMUND Rice Centre (ERC) director Phil Glendenning wants world leaders meeting in Copenhagen this month to see the human face of the impact of climate change.



Mr Glendenning is one of an eight-member Pacific Calling Partnership (PCP) delegation that left Aust-ralia on December 4 to attend the United Nations Climate Change Summit, which started on Monday (December 7) and continues until Friday (December… Continue

Added by Stacey King on December 10, 2009 at 10:09am — No Comments

Kiribati presses for training in potential climate refuge

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA Updated December 9, 2009 10:10:39



The people of Kiribati have a lot riding on the Copenhagen talks, fearing theirs will be the first country completely lost to climate change. Rising sea levels have already forced whole villages on the coral atolls to relocate. And some believe Australia and New Zealand aren't doing enough to help the climate change refugees of… Continue

Added by Stacey King on December 9, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Commonwealth nations unite to combat climate change

Sydney Morning Herald ANNE DAVIES IN PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD November 29, 2009



The 52 Commonwealth nations will go to a summit in Copenhagen united in their determination to forge a meaningful agreement to combat climate change.



They have backed plans for a $US10 billion ($11 billion) Copenhagen Launch Fund, which will be… Continue

Added by Stacey King on December 1, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

Stressed islands no longer pacific

http://www.eurekastreet.com.au Maryanne Loughry November 24, 2009



Mindful of the forthcoming Copenhagen meeting on climate change, the Pacific islands of Kiribati and Tuvalu are calling upon all nations to reduce their carbon emissions so that they might be able to stay in their countries and not be forced to relocate elsewhere.



Over the past two years, Jesuit Refugee Service Australia, in collaboration with the University of… Continue

Added by Stacey King on November 24, 2009 at 8:53am — No Comments

In Kiribati, a way of life is being washed away

Melbourne Age

ADAM MORTON November 21, 2009

Villagers on the island of Abaiang stand in the sea where their homes used to be. Photo: Justin McManus



WHEN a coconut tree dies, the decay starts at the top. First the leaves fall, then the fruit. All that is left is a desiccated trunk, cut off at… Continue

Added by Stacey King on November 21, 2009 at 6:00pm — 2 Comments

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