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Pacific island Kiribati buys land in Fiji escape climate change
2014-07-01 13:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Kiribati has finalised the purchase of 20 sq km of land on Vanua Levu, a Fijian island, in order to give its people somewhere to grow food or to escape to, should the country continue to be affected by rising sea levels. Kiribatis president Anote Tong said, We would hope not to put everyone on [this] one piece of land, but if it became absolutely necessary, yes, we could do it. Negotiations between Kiribati and the Fijian government started back in 2012, when the president became increasingly...
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