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Pacific islander loses bid to be world’s first 'climate change refugee' [1]

A man from a tiny Pacific island who asked a court in New Zealand to recognise him as the world's first climate change refugee had his appeal rejected and faces deportation.

Publication Date: 
21/07/2015
Telegraph (United Kingdom) [2]
Tags:
Climate Change [3], Climate Impacts [4], Climate Refugees [5], New Zealand [6], Sea Level Rise [7], Kiribati [8], Supreme Court [9]

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[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-impacts
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[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sea-level-rise
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/kiribati
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/supreme-court