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Project Survival Pacific
- 1. Climate Change Impactson the Pacific Island States
- 2. 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.
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- 4. Access to cleanwater 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.
- 5. Hot river, West New Britain
- 6. 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.
- 7. Harvesting on thereef, Kimbe Bay
- 8. Food supplies andlivelihoods 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.
- 9. Village visit, EasternHighlands
- 10. Greater risk ofillness 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.
- 11. Mahonia girl, Kimbe Bay
- 12. Greater risk ofconflict 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.
- 13. People of Kimbe,West New Britain
- 14. Please visit http://youthprojectsurvival.org/ t o find out more and how you can be part of the solution!