17 NOVEMBER 2013
Recently, a curious case appeared before New Zealand’s High Court. The plaintiff, Ioane Teitiota, a resident of the island nation of Kiribati, was seeking refugee status in New Zealand. His reasoning? Climate change and rising sea levels were making Kiribati uninhabitable. “There’s no future for us when we go back to Kiribati,” Teitiota argued.
Read more at Commercial Appeal: http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2013/nov/17/j-maarten-troost-kiribati-faces-its-future-and-a/