The entire planet is facing up to the challenge of how to combat the devastating and worsening impacts of climate change. But for urgency of that fight is highest for the atoll countries like Kiribati, the Maldives, and the Marshall Islands.
For these countries, whose size, geography, and elevation make them particularly vulnerable to the impacts of rising ocean levels, climate change already poses an existential threat.
Original source: ADB
Published on 09 December 2019