Pacific islands can’t tackle climate change alone

Pacific island such as the Marshall Islands face huge costs building seawalls to protect their coastlines from climate change, with rising waters set to swamp large areas of habitable land in the low-lying nations. -AFP filepic

APIA: Climate change will hit the Pacific harder than anywhere else on Earth and the region’s tiny island nations need major international aid to deal with the challenge, the World Bank said Thursday.

A World Bank report, “Pacific Possible”, draws on research from numerous sources to back the long-held view of regional leaders that they are on the frontline of global warming.