PM set to offer Australia as climate refuge for 11,200 Tuvalu residents [View all]
In breaking news, the federal government is set to offer Tuvalu’s 11,200 residents the chance to live in Australia to avoid the catastrophic consequences of climate change in a major announcement by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese today.
Sources said Albanese, who met with Tuvalu Prime Minister Kausea Natano earlier this week on the sidelines of the Pacific Islands Forum, will make the announcement at a press conference in the Cook Islands on Friday afternoon.
Tuvalu, a collection of nine low-lying atolls, is considered one of the countries that faces the biggest risks of being entirely depopulated because of rising sea levels linked to climate change.
In September, Tuvalu enshrined a new definition of statehood in its constitution stating that the nation will remain in perpetuity, notwithstanding the impacts of climate change or anything else that results in the loss of its physical territory.
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