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Tuvalu PM urges new legal framework for climate migrants
2016-05-24 23:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Tuvalu's prime minister on Tuesday called for a U.N. resolution to create legal protection for people displaced by the impacts of climate change, saying there was currently no international framework to protect their rights. Speaking at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, where he made the proposal, he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation it was time to start working out how to deal with communities that might have to be moved due to rising seas, water shortages and other threats to their...
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Climate change taskforce from NZ to visit Tuvalu, Kiribati
2016-01-11 02:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Radio New Zealand: A team of MPs from New Zealand's opposition Labour Party will visit Tuvalu and Kiribati next month to see first-hand how the countries are dealing with climate change. Labour's special climate change task force will also look at what can be done to mitigate the problems the small island countries face due to rising seas. The party's Pacific Climate Change spokesperson Su'a William Sio says Labour also wants to review the whole issue of what makes a climate change refugee and what the legal definition...
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Tuvalu: Meet the Worlds First Climate Refugees
2016-01-05 18:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: "This is a story about people who stand to lose everything--people who may need to flee their native home and never come back. These people are refugees, but they`re not running from war or an oppressive government. They`re seeking asylum from climate change," the narrator of the Seeker Stories episode below explained. Climate refugees are those displaced from their homes due to climate change-induced disasters such as flooding or drought, as well as slow-creeping crises such as sea level rise....
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Tuvalu says climate change is a human rights issue
2015-11-22 21:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Radio New Zealand: Tuvalu's prime minister says the international community must recognise that inclusive human right principles are key to achieving a solution on climate change. Enele Sopoaga says climate change threatens the very core principles at the heart of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- including the right to life, liberty and security. But he says human rights have been largely ignored in the climate change discourse so far, when they should be an integral part of discussions. Mr Sopoaga...
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Tuvalu PM Enele Sopoaga says climate change 'like a weapon of mass destruction.'
2014-08-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Prime Minister of the small Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has compared climate change to a weapon of mass destruction, and warned Australia not to stand in the way of a new global agreement. Enele Sopoaga says his country and many other low-lying Pacific nations are facing serious threats from global warming. Mr Sopoaga says he'll be making his position clear when he co-chairs a UN climate change summit in New York next month. "We are caught in the middle, and certainly in Tuvalu, we are...
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