Climate Change

climate change: The 37-year-old is seeking refugee status, but not because he is being persecuted back home, one of the definitions of a refugee. Rather, he says, flooding and rising sea levels due to climate change are making it too dangerous for him, his wife and three children to return to Kiribati. The island nation, with a population of about 103,000, is made up of 33 coral atolls in the Pacific, half way between Hawaii and Australia, according to The Star. Whatever the outcome, the legal battle brings attention to a question that academics, researchers, environmentalists, politicians and diplomats have been puzzling over: what, if anything, should be done to aid the projected 200 million to 1 billion people who may be displaced by climate change over the next 50 years and A pending court case in New Zealand involving a man from the low-lying island of Kiribati could have profound implications worldwide on the future of migration due to climate change. The case is to go to court on Oct. 16. New Zealand immigration officials have rejected the mans previous claims, and most jurists are betting he ll lose his case in the high court. But his lawyer, Michael Kidd, told The Associated Press he will, if necessary, appeal the case all the way to the Supreme Court. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.