Between Durban and Rio: Ian Fry, Tuvalu's climate negotiator

Submitted by kimk on Sat, 28/04/2012 - 10:27am
Contact Phone: 
3393 2840
Date and Time: 
Thursday, May 17, 2012 -
5:30pm to 7:30pm
Contact Email: 
wendy.flannery@gmail.com
Contact Name: 
Wendy Flannery
Location: 
Level 1 conference room, Social Sciences and Humanities Library Duhig Building, off the Great Court University of Queensland
Website: 
http://brisbane.foe.org.au

Did anything good come out of the latest UN climate change negotiations for Tuvalu and other vulnerable Pacific Island nations, and can they expect anything significant from the Rio+20 Earth summit?

Hear Ian Fry, the international climate change negotiator for the government of the Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu.

Between Durban and Rio:

Thursday 17 May, 2012

5.45 for 6.00pm – 7.30pm

Level 1 conference room,

Social Sciences and Humanities Library

Duhig Building, off the Great Court

University of Queensland

After the main presentation there will be 3 short responses followed by an open discussion.

Co-sponsors: Friends of the Earth Brisbane,

Friends of Tulele Peisa, OxfamUQ, Earth Link,

Brisbane Catholic Justice and Peace Commission

Geography: 
Brisbane
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Comments

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 28/04/2012 - 9:28pm

I lived in Tuvalu for ten years the main reason the place gets flooded is because they removed all the sand from the beach to make concrete to build houses.All the people know it on the Island, they even replaced the sand with house bricks.How to fix the problem?Replace the sand and replant the mangroves they pulled out. The only reason they push the global warming rot is because a lot of them want to move to Australia and New Zealand,I say let them in they are good people.I also lived in Kiribati and Tarawa floods because the Japanese built a causeway from Bairiki to Betio, that changed the current in the lagoon, when you get a westerly wind on a high tide it floods,but go 24 mile south to Maiana and you get no flooding, sea level rise? I don't think so.How to fix the problem?pull down the causeway and build a bridge so the sea current goes back the way it was and tell the locals to replant all the trees they chopped down to build houses and to burn on fires then import sand and wood for building materials.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 28/04/2012 - 9:40pm

In Tuvalu some attribute the retreating coastline to residents removing sand and coral for building houses. Others believe there is a natural rebuilding of one side of the coast with sand ridges stacking up on the inner concave sides of the island and thus compensating for the erosion elsewhere.And that is the true story.
http://theconversation.edu.au/tuvalu-to-be-or-not-to-be-a-personal-exper...