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Pacific Islander Ioane Teitiota fails bid be first climate change refugee
2013-11-26 07:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: An i-Kiribati man's bid to become the world's first climate change refugee has failed, with a New Zealand judge describing his case as "unconvincing". Lawyers for Ioane Teitiota, 37, argued that NZ immigration authorities should not deport him, even though his visa had expired, because rising seas were threatening his low-lying homeland of Kiribati in the central Pacific. The difficulties Mr Teitiota and his family would encounter in Kiribati - which consists of more than 30 coral atolls, most...
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