Start planning for Pacific warming refugees: scientist

MAJURO (AFP)

Nunn is chairing the Pacific Climate Change Roundtable meeting in the Marshall Islands capital Majuro opening Monday where 14 Pacific countries and territories are devising their strategy for the December conference.

New scientific projections show the pace of sea level is faster than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projected in its 2007 report, Nunn said.

“We’re now looking at a more than one metre (three feet) sea level rise by the end of the century,” he said

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