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Across the Pacific islands, people are facing a devastating decision: stay on the land of their ancestors or leave as the islands become increasingly uninhabitable due to climate change.

19/10/2022

Part 1: When climate change arrives at your door

In the first episode of this three-part series, we look at how families, communities and Pacific leaders are facing huge decisions about the future of their islands and trying to figure out if they can stay on their land – land that defines their identity, on which their ancestors are buried – or whether they’ll be forced to leave

22 min
20/10/2022

Part 2: Leave your island or fight to stay?

We travel across the Pacific to islands in Papua New Guinea where people are being forced to leave due to rising sea levels, and to the tiny nation of Tuvalu where people are fighting to remain. We speak to islanders who have been forced to make devastating decisions due to a climate crisis not of their making

31 min
20/10/2022

Part 3: What does the world owe the Pacific?

In the final episode of our three-part series, we speak to Pacific politicians fighting it out with much larger, wealthier and more heavily polluting countries on the world stage; Pacific leaders facing the gargantuan task of attempting to relocate entire villages, infrastructure and even burial grounds as communities are threatened; and legal experts about what options Pacific countries have for compensation, to find out what the future is for the Pacific in the face of the climate crisis

23 min

3 Episodes

Across the Pacific islands, people are facing a devastating decision: stay on the land of their ancestors or leave as the islands become increasingly uninhabitable due to climate change.