![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stege is chair of the High Ambition Coalition, a grouping at the UN climate talks that brings together some of the world’s richest nations, including the EU, and some of the poorest and most vulnerable, to push for stronger climate action. We recently had a dengue fever emergency, a problem we’re seeing now in the winter months as they get warmer.” Growing up I remember just one very intense drought now they’re happening maybe every three years. Droughts are more frequent and more intense and longer. “We see stronger storms and storm surges. The islanders’ lives are now full of inescapable reminders of climate breakdown, says Tina Stege, the climate envoy for the tiny nation of 60,000 people on 29 atolls. Waves crash over the roads and airport runways, especially when the unusually high tide coincides with a storm surge, cutting off communication and making daily business dangerous or impossible. But recently the monthly “king tide” has brought new perils to this small group of islands in the Pacific about halfway between Australia and Hawaii. I n the Marshall Islands people are used to the vagaries of the ocean. ![]()
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