17 OCTOBER 2013
A man from a Pacific island nation of Kiribati has asked a New Zealand court to let him appeal a decision to recognise him as an asylum seeker and allow him to stay in the country as a climate change refugee.
The world's first "climate change refugee", 37-year-old Ioane Teitota, fled from Kiribita which was identified as the most vulnerable to rising sea levels and other effects of climate change.
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Source: IB Times