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There...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eIn the northern Pacific Ocean, the Marshall Islands are made up of 29 low lying coral atolls.\u003cbr/\u003eIt looks like the perfect island paradise, but the country is one of the most vulnerable in the world to the impacts of climate change. \u003cbr/\u003eThere are no mountains on the atolls that sit just 6 feet below sea level. \u003cbr/\u003eThe highest tides known as king tides, recurring tides and the swelling of the ocean, make the islands highly vulnerable to erosion.\u003cbr/\u003eThe king tides have a predictable cycle that follows the moon with the highest tide occurring approximately every 14 days in the lunar month - when the moon is closest to the earth.\u003cbr/\u003eIn Demon Town, Majuro locals watch as the waves swallow the seawalls just recently built by the community.  \u003cbr/\u003eAn exceptionally low tide will bring the shoreline back about 200 metres (656 feet) exposing the rocks and corals. \u003cbr/\u003e23-year-old William Kaisha Jr. recalls the last time extreme high tides known as king tides hit the island and says he worries that climate change is eating away his home. \u003cbr/\u003e\"The sea level came up and came over the sea wall right over there, and there was flood over the seawall,\" he says. \u003cbr/\u003eLocals say that erosion is a gradual process in recent decades the coastline has lost between 100-200 metres. \u003cbr/\u003eKaisha points out bones that he and other locals found embedded in the sand. He says he knows they are human bones, because they were wrapped in the same white cloth the islanders use to bury their dead. \u003cbr/\u003eThere are no scientific reports that solely blame climate change on global pollution, but the Marshall Islands government says a warmer world causing heavier rain and prolonged drought is threatening the very existence of the country. \u003cbr/\u003eTony De Brum is Minister-in-Assistance to the President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands and is responsible for climate change and energy. \u003cbr/\u003eHe has been vocal in climate change meetings globally, warning that the effects of climate change to the Marshall Islands is an issue of security affecting survival of his country.\u003cbr/\u003e\"If the world continues the way it is, continue the behaviour that they have become accustomed to and continues to pollute, we are not talking about a situation that is going to happen a 100 years from now.  We are talking about something that is happening now,\" he says. \u003cbr/\u003eOn route to Laura, a beach park located at the furthest end of Majuro, the road has been completely flooded by water coming over the sea wall.  \u003cbr/\u003eDe Brum says he remembers having birthday parties on the beach as a child. \u003cbr/\u003e\"There used to be park benches under here where people would picnic and now they are pushing people back.\"\u003cbr/\u003eHe says back then the shoreline was at least a 100 metres (328 feet) from where he now stands, but in just two decades it has disappeared. \u003cbr/\u003eWith 4 great-grandsons and 9 grandchildren, De Brum says he is concerned for the future of the younger generations on the islands.\u003cbr/\u003eHis family have already lost a whole uninhabited island that now under water exposing just a few bare rocks. The privately owned island was reclaimed by the sea in less than a generation \u003cbr/\u003eDe Brum says that the erosion of the Marshall Islands is on fast track and the country is extremely vulnerable in terms of both physical and economic survival.\u003cbr/\u003eThe country is totally reliant on fishing and tourism for income and does not have any of the tools and financing required to develop a form of resilience to threats of tides, flooding and droughts.\u003cbr/\u003eHe says the international community must listen and take action against climate change - not just for the Marshall Islands, but for the whole world.  \u003cbr/\u003e\"If these islands go under, we've made this an equivalence of the canary in the mine.\"  De Brums says.  \"We are the canaries that die in the mine to tell the miners to get out.  You're going to die too.  If the damage is such that we have to evacuate these islands, then it's already too late for the world to save itself.  And this message must be very clear to the world. \"\u003cbr/\u003eA working group from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have been recently meeting in Japan to finalise the second part of a report looking at the impact of climate change on societies around the world. A summary of the report will be published on 31st March. \u003cbr/\u003eDr. Chris Field, is co-chairing the meeting. He describes climate change as one of the \"defining challenges of the 21st century\" and says small low lying islands such as the Marshall islands are particularly at risk of the effects of climate change. \u003cbr/\u003e\" The sea level rises is major issue for them.  The king tides illustrate why it's such a challenge.  Sea level will be at some normal level, a gradually rising normal level, until there is a big event - a storm surge or a king tide, when the whole island can be overwhelmed.  One of the things we know from lots and lots of experience is that even a modest amount of sea level when coupled with one of these extremes - a king tide or a storm surge - can really create massive damages and has the potential to make some of these island areas uninhabitable.  Maybe not in the next ten years but maybe in the next 15, maybe 50, maybe a 100.\"\u003cbr/\u003eDr Field says because damage occurs by the combination of an extreme event with gradual sea level rises it's very difficult to predict exactly when small low lying islands like those in the Marshall Islands could be lost. \u003cbr/\u003eFor the Marshall Islanders it means sea walls are being constantly 'built' in anticipation of the next king tide.   \u003cbr/\u003eThese seawalls are built in desperation, with whatever the islanders find. On this beach a scrapped car has been covered with sand and gravel in the hope that it will hold back some of the water.  \u003cbr/\u003e\"Those trees used to be huge and we used to have picnics under there,\" says De Brum. \"We put more sand and gravel to try to stop the erosion but its not working.\"\u003cbr/\u003eJust a few weeks ago on 3rd March 2014 a state of emergency was declared following severe floods that swamped Majuro and the island of Arno. \u003cbr/\u003eDe Brum says action to help vulnerable islands must be taken now by the international community, as the islanders themselves are powerless and will be the first victims of rising sea levels. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Pacific nation of Kiribati is considering an unusual backup plan in case climate change wipes out their entire archipelago: They may move everyone to Fiji.\u003cbr/\u003eKiribati has already purchased nearly 6,000 acres on Fiji's main island, Viti Levu, in the hope that the fertile land could provide an insurance policy for Kiribati's entire population of 103,000. \u003cbr/\u003eKiribati straddles the equator near the international date line. It has found itself at the leading edge of the debate on climate change because many of its atolls rise just a few feet above sea level.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Fijian president said recently that his country would welcome their neighbours if they decided to make the move. \u003cbr/\u003ePeople in the Marshall Islands have already started migrating to bigger islands within the country after losing their own land.\u003cbr/\u003eBut De Brum says that moving to another country would mean the death of their culture. \u003cbr/\u003e\"If you were to ask the Marshallese people to pack up and go to, say, the United States or to Australia and become the wards of some other country, that's tantamount to suicide.  Because you are saying you don't have your culture anymore, you don't have your language anymore, you don't have any more of what made you different apart from any other people in the world,\" he says. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Marshallese government has  taken some measures to reduce its energy consumption by introducing solar panels to homes and using canoes for transportation instead of motorised boats, but De Brum feels the islanders are not responsible for climate change. \u003cbr/\u003eDe Brum says they are doing their small part to try to off the impacts of climate change but the world needs to act too. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Marshall Island's plea is for the world to stop polluting in the name of development and have higher ambitions in clean emissions.  \u003cbr/\u003eDe Brum says his mission is to carry that message as far and as wide as he can.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will publish a summary of its report on March 31st. \u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eMarshall Islands - February 18th, 2014\u003cbr/\u003e1. Aerial shot over the Marshall Islands\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eDemon Town, Jenrok, Majuro, The Marshall Islands - February 15th, 2014\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of a boy standing on top of the sea wall facing the ocean\u003cbr/\u003e3. Tilt up of the sea wall built by the community \u003cbr/\u003e4. Mid of boy and big waves \u003cbr/\u003e5. Mid of William Kaisha Jr and a boy looking at sea wall \u003cbr/\u003e6. Close of the concrete sea wall protecting a residence by the coastline\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (English) William Kaisha Jr., a resident of Demon town, Jenrok:\u003cbr/\u003e \"The sea level came up and came over the sea wall right over there, and there was flood over the sea wall.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide of young men standing on the sea wall in front of a graveyard\u003cbr/\u003e9. Close of Kaisha pointing at what he thinks are human bones that surfaced from the grave\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eDemon Town, Jenrok, Majuro, The Marshall Islands - February 16th, 2014\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide pan from the grave to the ocean at low tides\u003cbr/\u003e11. Large stones used as seawalls and a tree with the roots showing\u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid of the seawall \u003cbr/\u003e13. Mid of the corals and the shore line in the background \u003cbr/\u003e14. Close of a woman cleaning up after the king tide\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide of the seawall and shoreline a day after the king tide\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eMajuro, The Marshall Islands - February 15th, 2014\u003cbr/\u003e16. Minister Tony De Brum with great-grandson at the beach of Laura\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony De Brum, Minister-in-Assistance to the President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands:\u003cbr/\u003e\"If the world continues the way it is, continue the behaviour that they have become accustomed to and continues to pollute, we are not talking about a situation that is going to happen a 100 years from now.  We are talking about something that is happening now.\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. Driving shot of the road, ocean behind the seawall and water flooded on the road \u003cbr/\u003e19. Driving shot of the road and waves going over the seawall \u003cbr/\u003e20. Wide pan of Laura beach at high tide\u003cbr/\u003e21. Tony De Brum pointing at shoreline UPSOUND (English) Tony De Brum \"There used to be park benches under here where people would picnic and now they are pushing people back.\" Zooms into a boy sitting by shoreline.\u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony De Brum, Minister-in-Assistance to the President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We've made this the equivalent of the canary in the mine.  We are the canaries that die in the mine to tell the miners, \"get out, you're going to die too\".  If the damage is such that we have to evacuate these islands, then it's already too late for the world to save itself.  And this message must be very clear to the world. \"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eYokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, 25 March, 2014\u003cbr/\u003e23. Mid tilt up of IPCC working group II opening session  \u003cbr/\u003e24. Mid of conference showing desks for Cook Islands and Congo \u003cbr/\u003e25. Tilt down of Co-chair of the IPCC working group II at the conference\u003cbr/\u003e26. Tilt up from name plate on the table to Field shaking hands with Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara at the IPCC conference\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eYokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan 24 March, 2014\u003cbr/\u003e27. SOUNDBITE (English) of Dr. Chris Field, Co-Chair, the IPCC working group II, Carnegie Institution of Science \u003cbr/\u003e\"Most vulnerable classes of parts of the world, is small islands, especially low-lying small islands. The sea level rises is major issue for them.  The king tides illustrate why it's such a challenge.  Sea level will be at some normal level, a gradually rising normal level, until there is a big event - a storm surge or a king tide, when the whole island can be overwhelmed.  One of the things we know from lots and lots of experience is that even a modest amount of sea level when coupled with one of these extremes - a king tide or a storm surge - can really create massive damages and has the potential to make some of these island areas uninhabitable.  Maybe not in the next ten years but maybe in the next 15, maybe 50, maybe a 100.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eMarshall Islands - February 18th, 2014\u003cbr/\u003e28. Various aerials over the Marshall Islands\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eLaura, Majuro, The Marshall Islands - February 11th, 2014\u003cbr/\u003e29. Wide pan of the Laura beach to the debris of a broken car used as a seawall beside the coconut trees that lay flat on the beach\u003cbr/\u003e30. Close tilt down from the ocean to the attempted seawall made with a broken car\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eLaura, Majuro, The Marshall Islands - February 15th, 2014\u003cbr/\u003e31. Mid of De Brum walking towards and pointing to a big tree, pan to tree \u003cbr/\u003eUPSOUND (English) Tony De Brum: \"Those trees used to be huge and we used to have picnics under there. Those old trunks down there.\" \u003cbr/\u003e32. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony De Brum, Minister-in-Assistance to the President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands:\u003cbr/\u003e\"So then they put more sand and gravel to try to stop the erosion but its not working.\" \u003cbr/\u003e33. Tilt down to beach using old cars to try to stop tide\u003cbr/\u003eTamara Greenstone Alefaio - Mandatory on-screen credit as Tamara Greenstone Alefaio \u003cbr/\u003eMajuro, The Marshall Islands - March 3, 2014\u003cbr/\u003e34. STILL King tide waves hitting the walls of residence by the shore\u003cbr/\u003e35. STILL Foundation and wall of an ocean side house broken with waves\u003cbr/\u003e36. STILL Flooded resident's home\u003cbr/\u003e37. STILL Local residents on the flooded streets in attempt of a cleanup\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eMajuro, The Marshall Islands - February 14th, 2014\u003cbr/\u003e38. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony De Brum, Minister-in-Assistance to the President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands: \u003cbr/\u003e\"If you were to ask the Marshallese people to pack up and go to, say, the United States or to Australia and become the wards of some other country, that's tantamount to suicide.  Because you are saying you don't have your culture anymore, you don't have your language anymore, you don't have any more of what made you different apart from any other people in the world.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eMajuro, The Marshall Islands - February 16th, 2014\u003cbr/\u003e39. Wide pan of a beach during a low tide\u003cbr/\u003e40. Close of the waves covering the seawall \u003cbr/\u003e41. 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