2 OCTOBER 2013
THE first claim for asylum from a “climate-change refugee” is set to be heard by a court in New Zealand.
The man from the island of Kiribati arrived in New Zealand six years ago and has since settled and fathered three children.
Immigration authorities have twice tried to send him back to the Pacific island, but he has argued rising sea levels caused by global warming means it is not safe for him to return there.
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Source: The Scotsman