10 DECEMBER 2013
Recently, a legal case in New Zealand captured world media attention. An individual, facing deportation to his home in Kiribati, claimed refugee status resulting from the impact of climate change, sea level rise, and extreme weather on his small island nation which some have predicted will be inundated within decades, forcing the entire national population -- some 50,000 people -- now inhabiting a narrow island of just six square miles, to seek a new homeland. His name is Ioane Teitiota.
Read more at The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-neill/a-climate-change-refugee_b_4414234.html