Small island countries press for guarantees as rising sea levels risk leaving their citizens stateless
Facing extinction, Tuvalu tries to create digital ‘twin’ to survive
Small island nations would rather fight than flee, but rising sea levels have prompted apocalyptic legal discussions about whether a state is still a state if its land disappears below the waves.
The Pacific Islands Forum, which represents many of the most vulnerable countries, has invited international legal experts to consider this question and begun a diplomatic campaign to ensure that political statehood continues even after a nation’s physical fabric is submerged.
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