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Climate Change Impacts on the Pacific Island States
Big Impacts
Climate change will affect everyone, but its
affecting poor people in developing
countries first and most dramatically.
People's income, health and lives are
already being threatened by climate change.
Restorf Island, Kimbe Bay
Access to clean water will change
As rainfall patterns have changed, droughts
have been experienced in Papua New
Guinea, the Federated States of Micronesia
and Fiji.
Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Cook
islands have experienced water shortages.
More humanitarian disasters
The average number of disasters reported during 2000–2004 was 55 per cent higher than during 1995–1999 and affected one
third more people.
There will be more droughts during the 21st century.
Harvesting on the reef, Kimbe Bay
Food supplies and livelihoods will be at risk
Crop gardens on six of Tuvalu's eight
islands have been damaged by rising sea
levels and more severe storms.
Export cash crops such as copra, coffee and sugarcane are also highly vulnerable to damage by heat, salination and severe
weather.
Village visit, Eastern Highlands
Greater risk of illness
The impact of climate change on water supplies is likely to increase cases of
diarrhoea which already claims the lives of nearly 2 million children a year.
Five million serious illnesses and 150,000 deaths already occur every year directly
as a result of climate change.
Mahonia girl, Kimbe Bay
Greater risk of conflict and more people on the move
As climate change hits, some people will
have to leave their country and this is
already happening in the pacific.
People of Kimbe, West New Britain
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