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An Islander's Bid to Be the World's First Climate Refugee
2015-03-31 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: As Tropical Cyclone Pam ripped through the South Pacific earlier this month, Ioane Teitiota was 2,600 miles away in New Zealand checking Facebook for updates from friends and relatives back in Kiribati, a string of coral atolls about halfway between Australia and Hawaii. The devastation wrought by the category five storm underscores the uncertain future faced by many in small Pacific Island nations as extreme weather events and climate change intensify. Its a fate already being tested by Teitiota,...
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The making of a climate refugee
2015-01-29 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Foreign Policy: A cold New Zealand rain pelted the broad, weathered face of the man from the tropical Pacific. He squinted up at the gathering storm before refocusing his attention on crates of freshly picked Chinese cabbages, carefully adjusting and wrapping them to make sure they would arrive at market in perfect condition. Over the years, such attention to detail and dependability have elevated him from field hand to foreman of a vegetable farm on the outskirts of Auckland. Typically, Ioane Teitiota (pronounced...
Executive Summary: The African Immigrant & Refugee Community in Mult Co
2014-10-07 21:50:48| PortlandOnline
Executive Summary - The African Immigrant & Refugee Community in Multnomah County: An Unsettling Profile, produced by the Coalition of Communities of Color PDF Document, 282kbCategory: Supporting policy documents and reference materials
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Pacific Islanders reject 'climate refugee' status
2014-09-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Radio Australia: They have long been described as climate refugees: the hundreds of thousands of people living on low-lying Pacific islands who may be forced to migrate if rising sea levels leave their homes uninhabitable. But it is a term Pacific leaders say is loaded with political connotations and does not reflect the true dimensions of the problem. "They see [refugee] as a negative term that connotes victimhood and people in need of protection by the international community," Jane McAdam, director of the...
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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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