On the move - climate change displacement in PNG

Earth Matters · Apr 24, 2016

The people of the Carteret Islands, a coral atoll off the coast of Bougainville, in Papua New Guinea, have been called the world’s first climate refugees.Like many low-lying islands in the Pacific, the Carterets have been experiencing the effects of climate change first-hand. They have watched as their shorelines have been eroded by the sea, king-tides have swept right across their small islands, and salt water has literally bubbled-up through the ground. We hear from Ursula Rakova, director of Tulele Peisa, which is coordinating the migration of Carteret islanders to Bougainville."We need to…