Pacific island nation Tuvalu is exploring ways to keep its recognition as a state even if it loses all its land to rising sea levels.
Simon Kofe, the foreign minister of Tuvalu, said the country was planning for the worst and looking into keeping the ownership of its maritime zones. “We’re actually imagining a worst-case scenario where we are forced to relocate or our lands are submerged,” he said yesterday.
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