Green Prophet

AUGUST 18, 2016

A weightlifter from Kiribati is our favorite Olympian. Most people don’t know where Kiribati is,” Katoatau, 32, told Reuters. Providing potable water for Kiribati’s 100,000+ inhabitants is a more immediate concern than flooding. Kiribati kids are nine times more likely to die in their first year than children in the UK. I beg the countries of the world to see what is happening to Kiribati,” he wrote in his open letter last fall. “In

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The Republic of Kiribati, a small nation of islands and atolls in the central Pacific Ocean, is a tropical paradise that’s also believed to be at extreme risk of disappearing due to climate change. Christophe Caranchini proposes resilient floating houses for Kiribati.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 25, 2021

The area is known as the Republic of Kiribati. The Kiribati Floating Houses concept is presented by UOOU Studio, which said, “Our work focuses on architecture that connects man-made environments with nature, putting eco- and human-oriented design at the core of our mission.” + UOOU Studio Images via UOOU Studio. Kiribati Floating Houses address rising waters and land limitations. Architectural design takes all forms, with a focus from the ground up.

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Green Earth Journey

MARCH 9, 2012

In what could be the world's first climate-induced migration of modern times, Anote Tong, the Kiribati president, said he was in talks with Fiji's military government to buy up to 5,000 acres of freehold land on which his countrymen could be housed. Some of Kiribati's 32 pancake-flat coral atolls, which straddle the equator over 1,350,000 square miles of ocean, are already disappearing beneath the waves.

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Eco Friendly Daily

APRIL 12, 2013

The nation of Kiribati, located near the equator in the Pacific Ocean, is home to approximately 103,000 individuals. In order to ensure the survival of the inhabitants of the nation, Kiribati President Anote Tong has presented a plan to purchase approximately 6,000 acres of land on Fiji. Fiji is located about 1,400 miles from Kiribati. The land is approximately three times the capital of Kiribati, Tarawa, where half the population currently resides.

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Cool Green Science

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Africa Amphibians Animals Biodiversity China Climate Change Climate Science & Research Conservation Issues Environmental News Environmental Science Global Warming Green Living International Science Sustainable Livelihoods The Green Buzz The Nature Conservancy bp Business Week de-extinction extinct species frog global warming Grist Guardian Gulf Huffington Post Kiribati lion whisperer lions new oil rigs New York Times oil spill technology US wiped out by climate change

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 31, 2019

By 2015, TED said, people had shifted to seeing climate change as happening now, rather than in the far-off future, thanks to debates about whether or not places like the island nation of Kiribati were already sinking.

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Nature Conservancy - Science

JANUARY 6, 2017

Before I joined The Nature Conservancy (TNC), we went to the Republic of Kiribati to do just that. The 33 atolls of Kiribati are scattered across an area of Pacific Ocean the size of the United States. Kiribati is a sort of laboratory because the economy is based on two things: fish and coconuts. Some of the islands in Kiribati were getting very crowded. Kiribati fisherman. Coconut palms in Abaiang, Kiribati.

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The Green Changemakers

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

Submitted by Sarah Carr Third Place: The Dark Side of a Green Fuel , Submitted by Conny Hafner The Short-listed Films for the Young Voices of Climate Change Award Winner: The Rising Tide: Kiribati , Submitted by Casey Beck. [link] AWARD WINNING FILMS We are very delighted to announce the winners of the Awards. These films do an outstanding job of conveying various aspects of the social dimensions of climate change. Congratulations to the winners!

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Nature Conservancy - Science

MAY 9, 2014

The Phoenix Islands Protected Area — a marine reserve the size of California controlled by the Pacific island nation of Kiribati — will close to all fishing at the end of 2014. Craft brewers, sportsmen and others mobilize in support of a proposed rule clarifying and restoring Clean Water Act safeguards, sponsored by Army Corps of Engineers and the EPA. Photo credit: Steven DePolo /Flickr through a Creative Commons license.

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Green Prophet

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Climate Change – Kiribati weight lifter David Katoatau celebrated his sixth-place finish in the 105kg weightlifting competition with a wildly jubilant dance that broadcast a serious message about the survival of his tiny Pacific island homeland. Kiribati (shown above) is located about 2,400 miles south of Hawaii. The 2016 Rio Olympics are history, but a hindsight review shows a surprising sideshow of contemporary human issues running through the international athletic games.

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Cool Green Science

JUNE 28, 2017

The Nature Conservancy is leading a project in countries that are part of the Parties to Nauru Agreement (PNA), which brings together nine Pacific island countries – Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Island, Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu – ­to work together to manage 50 percent of the world’s tuna source. Even though I live near the ocean, I am not a fishermen.

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Green (Living) Review

DECEMBER 17, 2010

This CMM requires vessels of Commission members and cooperating non-members to provide entry/exit/catch reports to the Commission when operating in the Eastern high seas pocket bounded by the Exclusive Economic Zones of the Cook Islands to the west, French Polynesia to the east and Kiribati to the north. HONOLULU, HI, December 16, 2010: On Friday, the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) concluded its week-long 7th Regular Session, in Ko Olina, Hawaii.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 5, 2021

Related: Christophe Caranchini proposes resilient floating houses for Kiribati King is a dancer, painter, wood carver and writer; Adams is a sculptor who carves wood and fossilized ivory and mammoth tusks. Off the coast of Tofino, British Columbia, floats a forested, eco-fairyland of greenhouses, ramps, towers and small buildings, most of them painted fuchsia and teal. It’s the innovative and whimsical off-grid project of two artists, Catherine King and Wayne Adams.

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Green Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2011

Australia as a world leading annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) polluter has ALREADY used up its “fair share” of this terminal GHG pollution budget and is now stealing the entitlement of other countries, including impoverished, climate change-threatened countries such as Somalia, Bangladesh and Kiribati (see “ Shocking analysis by country of years left to zero emissions ”).

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Green Blog

AUGUST 1, 2011

Eritrea (51.5), Haiti (51.5), Solomon Islands (65.5), Vietnam (65.5), Cape Verde (65.5), Niger (65.5), Ethiopia (65.5), São Tomé and Príncipe (72.1), Afghanistan (80.1), The Gambia (80.1), Bangladesh (80.1), Comoros (103.0), Kiribati (120.2). “Australia is committed to a greedy and inhumane course of climate exceptionalism, climate racism and climate injustice.&#. We all know that we have to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution and eventually reach zero emissions.

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Green Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2011

At the 2011 Durban Climate Conference the US, with the help of its climate criminal lackeys Australia and Canada, again succeeded in preventing requisite international climate change action. It was reported that Island States had again pleaded with other representatives to avert “ climate genocide ” but their pleas fell on deaf ears at Durban, as at Cancun, as at Copenhagen.

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Green Blog

JANUARY 25, 2012

Fossil fuel burning yielding the greenhouse gas (GHG) carbon dioxide (CO2) is a major component of man-made global warming. In relation to carbon pollution from the burning of fossil fuels, Net Carbon Debt is equal to the Historical Carbon Debt (from fossil fuel burning since the start of the Industrial Revolution in circa 1750) minus the Carbon Credit (the residual carbon pollution from fossil fuel burning permitted between now and zero emissions in 2050).

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