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RMI on 50-year clock

By Journal on November 17, 2022 50 year, 50 years, 6.6 feet, Clarence Samuel, climate change, COP27, Egypt, global climate summit, John Silk, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, Majuro Ebeye, Sea Level Rise News Archive

The Marshall Islands delegation to the global climate summit COP27 in Egypt this past week released the “RMI Statement of Intent on Adaptation” — which underscores the emerging climate reality that in the lifetime of today’s elementary age population, much of the Marshall Islands may become uninhabitable. Marshall Islands delegates to COP27 are telling the […]

‘We don’t have higher ground’

By Journal on November 10, 2022 Angeline Heine-Reimers, Ben Wakefield, Bernadette Kabua, Clarence Samuel, COP27, Tina Stege News Archive

This week’s global climate summit in Egypt must be more than a public relations exercise, Marshall Islands Climate Envoy Tina Stege told Sky News in an interview over the weekend. Climate is “very much front and center for us,” Stege said. “It’s an existential issue. We don’t accept a future in which we have no […]