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Nearly one-third of Pacific nation Tuvalu seeks Australian climate visa
- Nearly one-third of Tuvaluans, or 3,125 individuals, entered the random ballot for a climate visa within four days of it opening.
- Tuvalu is recognized as one of the world's most climate-threatened places, potentially becoming uninhabitable within 80 years.
- Australia's climate visa program is a landmark response to climate-forced migration, allowing 280 Tuvalu citizens to migrate each year.
- This agreement legally recognizes Tuvalu's statehood and sovereignty due to climate change impacts.
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By Angus Watson, CNN More than a third of Tuvalu's population has applied to move to Australia under a historic visa program designed to help people escape rising sea levels. The island nation, located roughly halfway between Hawaii and Australia, is home to about 10,000 people, according to the latest government statistics, living on a cluster of small islets and atolls in the South Pacific. With no part of its territory above six meters, it is…
As the ocean and seas continue to grow and affect the island nations of the world, many citizens will have no choice and will need to leave their homes. In Tuvalu, one...
In the face of rising waters that threaten to remove their country from the map within 80 years, Tuvaluans are rushing to obtain one of the 280 annual visas to Australia.
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