There are four countries in particular that are sufficiently low-lying to be already experiencing difficult challenges from rising sea levels. They are the Maldives, the Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and Kiribati. There’s a certain amount of simplified nonsense that gets talked on the subject, and there are some interesting dilemmas and grey areas. Let's have a look.
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Shots from Tuvalu from 'Traveling to the Least Visited Country in the World' @Yes Theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODuEl4oNae0
References
Climate change: Mixed messages on the Maldives waterfront
https://www.euromoney.com/article/b14qq2dslcm1zd/climate-change-mixed-messages-on-the-maldives-waterfront
Infrastructure development pushing islands to ‘tipping point’
https://maldivesindependent.com/environment/infrastructure-development-pushing-islands-to-tipping-point-149739
Patterns of island change and persistence offer alternate adaptation pathways for atoll nations, Kench et al, 2018
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-02954-1
A pressure release valve? Migration and climate change in Kiribati, Nauru and Tuvalu
https://apo.org.au/sites/default/files/resource-files/2019-02/apo-nid224491.pdf
Maldives becomes 1st nation to benefit from new environmental fund launched at COP26
https://en.sun.mv/70188
New Zealand's "Climate Refugee" Visas: Lessons for the Rest of the World
https://reliefweb.int/report/world/new-zealands-climate-refugee-visas-lessons-rest-world
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