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The Compass: Living on the Edge: Sea Levels Rise

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04/04/2018 GMT

Living on the Edge

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Moving on from uninhabitable land and building state-of-the-art sea defences

Moving on from uninhabitable land and building state-of-the-art sea defences.

Five of the Solomon Islands have disappeared, many more are becoming uninhabitable. For Kerry and Sally, climate change is not a theory - it is what has made them abandon their island and the graves of their ancestors. They see themselves as lucky - they had family land to move to and the skills to build new homes on stilts - but they are resigned to moving again. 

Award-winning journalist Didi Akinyelure visits her home city of Lagos to find out the latest solution to sea level rise in West Africa. The glass towers of the new financial district of Eko Atlantic are protected from the waves by state of the art sea defences. The residents of the luxury apartments should keep their feet dry whatever the climate throws at them. That may be small comfort for their unprotected neighbours in the shanty town on the lagoon, Makoko, but they’re experts in survival against the odds.

(Photo: The sea encroaches on a tropical island. Credit: Getty Images)

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Didi Akinyelure meets the people on the frontline of the planet’s rapidly changing environment.

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