Admit it: you haven’t been paying attention to the Marshall Islands. And why should you? It’s populated by a mere 69,000 who live on 1,156 islands. But climate change has propelled the Pacific Ocean nation to the international centre stage. With its exposure to rising sea levels, the Marshall Islands are in peril of being the first country obliterated by climate change, but the country has seized this threat as an opportunity and positioned itself as a lab for new, clean technologies. It is in negotiations with some of the world’s largest companies about commercialising new ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) energy. Tony de Brum, vice president and the minister in charge of climate change adaptation, talks to Guardian Sustainable Business.
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Source: Down To Earth