Low-lying Pacific island nation, threatened by climate crisis, also wants to keep maritime zones if its land disappears
Tuvalu is looking at legal ways to keep its ownership of its maritime zones and recognition as a state even if the Pacific island nation is completely submerged due to the climate crisis, its foreign minister said on Tuesday.
“We’re actually imagining a worst-case scenario where we are forced to relocate or our lands are submerged,” the minister, Simon Kofe, told Reuters in an interview.
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