Posts Tagged ‘Tuvalu’
‘We Don’t Want To Become A Memory’: Minister Of Endangered Tuvalu
Climate action is a “moral responsibility” for wealthy polluting nations, Tuvalu’s climate minister told AFP Friday, as the low-lying island nation pursues UN recognition for its heritage threatened by rising seas. The Pacific island nation is one of the places most threatened by climate change, to the point that it might become uninhabitable this century…
Read MoreMore Than 80% Of Tuvalu Seeks Australian Climate Visa
More than 80 percent of Pacific nation Tuvalu’s population is seeking a landmark climate visa to live in Australia as rising seas lap at its shores, official figures showed Wednesday. Australia is offering visas to Tuvalu citizens each year under a climate migration deal Canberra has billed as “the first agreement of its kind anywhere…
Read MoreNearly One-third Of Pacific Nation Tuvalu Seeks Australian Climate Visa
Nearly one-third of citizens in Pacific nation Tuvalu are seeking a landmark climate visa to live in Australia as rising seas threaten their palm-fringed shores, official figures obtained by AFP show. Australia is offering visas to 280 Tuvalu citizens each year under a climate migration deal Canberra has billed as “the first agreement of its…
Read MoreTaiwan’s Lai Arrives In Tuvalu To Shore Up Pacific Allies
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te arrived in the tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu on Wednesday, as part of a trip aimed at shoring up international support for Taiwan as China seeks to poach its few remaining allies. Taiwan calls itself a sovereign nation, but Beijing insists the democratic island of 23 million people is part of…
Read MoreNew Tuvalu PM Says Focused On Development, Not Taiwan Ties
Tuvalu’s new Prime Minister Feleti Teo says his government is focused on the “many key development priorities” facing his Pacific Island nation, not debates about Taiwan relations that have consumed outsiders. The government will “concentrate working on the key priorities of Tuvalu” he told a small group of media outlets, including AFP, on Wednesday. “Unless…
Read MoreTuvalu Names New PM, Taiwan Says Ties ‘Everlasting’
Taiwan said it received assurances from Tuvalu’s new prime minister Monday that ties were “everlasting”, scotching rumours that the Pacific island nation was poised to flip alliances to Beijing. Former attorney general Feleti Teo was named premier in a ceremony on Monday, a month after an election that put the Pacific Island nation’s recognition of…
Read MoreAustralia Offers Tuvalu Citizens Climate Refuge
Citizens of climate-threatened Tuvalu will have the right to live in Australia under a landmark pact unveiled Friday — an offer of refuge as their Pacific homeland is lost beneath the seas. Prime ministers Kausea Natano and Anthony Albanese inked a treaty to help Tuvalu’s 11,000 residents tackle climate change, and to take up sanctuary…
Read MoreTuvalu Minister Says Both China, U.S. Needed For Climate Change Action
Tuvalu Foreign Minister Simon Kofe speaks during an interview with Reuters in Taipei, Taiwan November 21, 2019. Both the United States and China need to be on board to ensure peace and bring action on climate change, Tuvalu’s foreign minister said on Thursday. Simon Kofe told Reuters at a virtual Newsmaker event that Tuvalu was…
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