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Montevideo, July 29th 2025 - 07:10 UTC

Tag: Tuvalu Islands

  • Sunday, July 6th 2025 - 11:58 UTC

    Today Tuvalu’s Climate change visas; tomorrow extensive to the World’s?

    UN COP26 Glasgow was not a conventional statesman – he was Tuvalu’s Foreign Minister Simon Kofe, and he delivered a powerful message with his very presence in the encroaching waters. 

    By Gwynne Dyer - Some big changes arrive with a bang, but usually they sort of sneak in and you barely notice them at first. Last week’s big change saw the creation of the world’s first climate-change visas. It’s a way of giving potential climate refugees some hope and some dignity, and it would certainly be an improvement on the current migration mess.