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Living on the Brink: while Australia still refuses to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, low-lying Pacific island nations such as Tuvalu are staring at a future without a home.
GREENHOUSE POLLUTION COMES mainly from wealthy countries, and the energy debate in Australia has tended to be more about economics than people. But it is the people living in developing nations--particularly small island states--who are feeling the brunt of climate change.
Closest to home are the seven million people who live in the Pacific Islands. Although Pacific countries contribute less than one per cent of global greenhouse pollution (2) they are already suffering the lion's share of extreme weather events and other climate change impacts.
As air temperatures rise, oceans heat up and cyclones become more frequent and severe. In January this year, the Solomon Islands were devastated by cyclone Zoe. The cyclone was one of the…
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