Dubai - Submerged Islands

As the climate continues to warm, entire islands are sinking below rising waters caused from melting glaciers. Mr. Achim Steiner - United Nations Under Secretary General & UN Environment Programme Executive Director - Indeed there are many island nations who are doomed already now, condemned if you want to disappear. Therefore there is no question that we have to act. And that is just the beginning of the visible impact of climate change. The invisible part, the bits that we have not necessarily understood that are happening around us are also on their way. CLIMATE REFUGEES: 25 million people uprooted in 2007 President Tong of the Island Nation of Kiribati: We have whole communities, having to be relocated, villages which have been there over a decade maybe the century and now they have to be relocated, and where theyve being living for the last few decades is no longer there. It has been eroded. AT LEAST 18 ISLANDS SUBMERGED AROUND THE WORLD: • Lohachara, India 10,000 residents • Bedford, Kabasgadi and Suparibhanga islands near India 6,000 families • Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, USA 13 islands • Kiribati 3 atolls • Half of Bangladeshs Bhola Island permanently flooded 500,000 Paul Tobasi Government Representative of the Carteret Islands Its not their wish to go, but because of the situation; its forcing them to move. ISLANDS SINKING OR AT RISK FROM RISING SEA LEVELS (over 40 nations): Tuvalu 12,000 residents with no more fresh drinking water and vegetable plots have washed away Ghoramara near India 2/3 submerged as of 2006 with 7,000 residents already relocated Neighboring island of Sagar 250,000 residents also threatened Some 50 other islands jeopardized in the India-Bangladesh Sundarbans, with a population of 2 million Kutubdia in southeastern Bangladesh lost over 200,000 residents, with remaining 150,000 likely soon to depart Maldives 369,000 residents in the Indian Ocean, whose president wants to relocate the entire country Marshall Islands 60,000 residents Kiribati 107,800 residents, approximately 30 islands submerging Tonga 116,900 residents Vanuatu 212,000 residents, some of whom have already been evacuated and coastal villages relocated Solomon Islands 566,800 residents Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea 2,500 residents whose land no longer supports agriculture Shishmaref in Alaska, USA 600 residents Kivalini in Alaska, USA 400 residents Over 2,000 other islands in Indonesia Dubai 1.2 million residents in the United Arab Emirates considered at risk There may be more islands, either uninhabited and/or not reported, that have submerged or are sinking due to climate change. President Tong of the Island Nation of Kiribati: We may be at the point of no return; our small low lying island will be submerged. Its an issue of human survival.If the world community, the different countries dont kick the Carbon habits, there will be other countries next on the line.