The Climate Conversations Podcast: Sinking Pacific Islands fight for survival
The prognosis for these tiny islands is grim - by 2050, they will be underwater due to the climate crisis. What are the islanders doing?
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Fiji, Tonga and Tuvalu hold a fascination for travellers who are drawn to their unparalleled beauty. But these island paradises are facing an existential climate threat as sea levels rise.
CNA’s Jeremy Koh gets a first-hand account and tells Julie Yoo how locals in Tuvalu are adapting to living on an island that is becoming increasingly uninhabitable.Â
Some houses have been lost to the sea. Basically, people are just clustering to the centre of the island because that's where the ground is highest (and) furthest away from the waters.
Jump to these key moments:
- 3:08 How homes are being lost to the sea
- 8:38 How islanders are coping
- 12:20 Preserving their islands on the metaverse
- 14:54 What global leaders can do
Source: CNA/cr
