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Island States seek to preserve sovereignty amid sea-level rise
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Projected global mean sea-level rise by 2100 is at least 0.5 metres, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
Low-lying island States are developing legal, diplomatic and technological measures to preserve their statehood, maritime rights, nationality and culture as sea levels rise. Tuvalu has also created a digital nation initiative and agreed on a migration and statehood treaty with Australia.
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- 0.5m
Projected global mean sea-level rise by 2100 is at least 0.5 metres, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
“By 2100, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization estimates that seas will have risen by at least 0.5 metres”
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The most pessimistic projections estimate global mean sea-level rise of 2 metres by 2100.
“the most pessimistic predictions estimate a full two metres increase”
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Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Marshall Islands lie around 2 metres above sea level.
“which lie only around two metres above the sea”