Sentences with phrase «island nations actually»

New Zealand's plan to create the world's first humanitarian visa for climate refugees has to consider ways people from Pacific Island nations actually want to be assisted.

What are such island nations actually doing about global warming?

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And though Iceland may not come out on top of most lists for favorite places to jet off to for spring break, the island nation in the North Atlantic is actually an amazing place to visit any time of the -LSB-...]

CNN just aired a new interview with that upbeat, optimistic centenarian James Lovelock, actually just 88, who says his usual stuff about it's too late to do anything about it, but adds that in his view, 500 million people will survive the Troubles, or what others have called «The Great Interruption» from 2050 to 3050, by taking refuge in the Arctic Basin, as well as in island nations such as the UK, New Zealand, Tasmania and a few «oases» in North and South America (maybe Colorado Rockies, Banff, Patagonia, Machu Pichu).

Subsequent research has found, for instance, that plenty of worrisome impacts actually happen well before we hit 2 °C: Arctic summer sea ice could collapse, coral reefs could die off, tiny island nations like Tuvalu could get swallowed by the rising seas.

Such a possible revision is actually foreseen in the Cancun Agreements, because the small island nations and least developed countries have long pushed for 1.5 °C, for good reasons.»