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Rich nations have moral duty to help island nations as climate change shifts weather patterns, says World Bank envoy [1]

Small island nations, particularly those in the Pacific, are already experiencing "extreme effects" from global warming, and rich nations including Australia have a "moral responsibility" to help t

Publication Date: 
01/09/2014
Age (Australia) [2]
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Climate Change [3], Small Island Developing States (SIDS) [4], Climate Impacts [5], Global Warming [6], Extreme Weather Events [7], Sea Level Rise [8], Kiribati [9], Tuvalu Island [10], Marshall Island [11], Samoa Island [12], UNDP [13], Green House Gases [14], Rainfall [15]

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