II155-Visa-Free Travel: The Solution for Islanders Against Climate Change? ??

Fiji's Deputy Prime Minister pushes for visa-free travel across the Pacific

One of Fiji's most senior political leaders has delivered a fiery speech in Canberra,?stepping up his call for Australia to lift visa restrictions on Pacific Islanders, and warning that the region could become?increasingly unstable unless it tackles climate and development woes.?Fiji's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Biman Prasad, who is a key coalition partner for Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, has been one of the most forceful advocates of a visa-free Pacific.

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Greenland's Inuit falling through thin ice of climate change

As the ice melts, the hunters in the village of Ittoqqortoormiit -- home to one of the last Inuit hunting communities -- worry where they will get water.

Greenland's ice sheets may hold one 12th of the world's fresh water -- enough to raise the sea level up seven metres (23 feet) if they were to melt --?but climate change is already threatening the village's supply.

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This week's highlights

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• On a Tiny Island in the Middle of Nowhere, 250 People Are Fending Off China
• South Korea’s Jeju Island Is a Microcosm of Eccentric K-Culture
• The Costs of Inaction: Calculating climate change-related loss and damage from extreme weather in Small Island Developing States
• Premier Speaks At ‘Island Of Hope’ Event
• Tell Me About … From the Inside Out and the Outside In
• Kusu Island fully powered by solar energy, with Pulau Hantu to follow suit

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