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Worlds first climate change refugee has appeal rejected
2014-05-12 19:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Ioane Teitiota, from the South Pacific island nation of Kiribati, had hoped to become the worlds first climate change refugee. His low-lying homeland is likely to be engulfed by waves by the end of this century and to become uninhabitable long before then. But the Court of Appeal in New Zealand, where Mr Teitioa, 37, has been living since 2007, took an old-fashioned view of what constitutes a refugee. In a ruling yesterday, it called his case fundamentally misconceived, and an attempt to...
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