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The Climate Question: Can small islands live with climate change?

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20/08/2023 GMT

Can small islands live with climate change?

BBC World Service - The Climate Question, Can small islands live with climate change?

What can island nations do to survive rising sea levels?

What can island nations do to survive rising sea levels? Qasa Alom investigates, with the help of reporters in Fiji and The Maldives.

The Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, has been raising awareness of the impact that climate change is having on small island nations like hers, from the Caribbean to the Indian and Pacific Oceans. 

In addition to facing more extreme weather and temperatures, these islands also have to contend with the threat posed by rising sea levels – which, for some islands, is existential. 

In this episode, Qasa Alom speaks to reporters in Fiji and the Maldives about what small island nations can do to survive.

Guests: 
Dr Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer, Director of the Ocean Physics program at NASA 
Dr Rosanne Martyr-Koller, Coastal Hazards and Adaptation Scientist at Climate Analytics 
Shahudha Mohamed, on-the-ground reporter in the Maldives 
Tim Vula, on-the-ground reporter in Fiji 
 
Producer: Ben Cooper 
Researcher: Octavia Woodward 
Series producer: Simon Watts 
Editor: China Collins 
Sound engineers: Hal Haines and Rod Farquhar 
Production coordinators: Debbie Richford and Sophie Hill

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