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May 31, 2023 · In response to the escalating threat of rising sea levels, Tuvalu, a small Pacific island nation comprising nine islands and a population of 12,000, is embarking on a groundbreaking initiative to establish itself as the world’s inaugural digital nation.
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Nov 23, 2022 · Simon Kofe, Tuvalu’s foreign minister, has now announced its plan to become the first digitised nation in the metaverse, an online realm that uses augmented and virtual reality to help users...
Nov 25, 2022 · “Since COP26, the world has not acted and so we in the Pacific have had to act. We’ve had to take our own precautionary steps with a Future Now project. As our land disappears, we have no choice but to become the world’s first digital nation,” Tuvalu’s diplomacy chief told COP27.
- 'Piece by Piece We'll Preserve Our Country'
- Protections For Kin and Country
- There Are Limits to Adaptation
This year, Tuvalu's leaders pushed the issue even further. In a new video released during the COP27 conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Kofe addressed viewers once again from the shores of one of Tuvalu's nine islands, which are about midway between Australia and Hawaii in the South Pacific Ocean. If the world continues on the path to warm by 3 C...
Digitally preserving the country is just one part of the national project called Future Now. The second arm of the national strategy is trying to create a legal framework by which the country can maintain its sovereignty even if the entire nation becomes submerged. "We would be made stateless, landless," said Tuvalu's Minister of Finance Seve Paeni...
Tuvalu's leaders have continued applying pressure on Western leaders to provide funding for adaptation to try and push off the worst impacts to the country, but there are limits to how much it can do, said Paeniu. "Sea level is rising faster — making our country uninhabitable — than what we could adapt to," he said. This echoes the concerns voiced ...
A small island State with a population of 11,000 in the South Pacific will replicate itself in cyberspace. Simon Kofe, Tuvalu’s Foreign Minister, announced that copies of the country’s landscape will be created in the metaverse at the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP27, hosted in Egypt in early November.
Nov 15, 2022 · Tuvalu plans to build a digital version of itself, replicating islands and landmarks and preserving its history and culture as rising sea levels threaten to submerge the Pacific nation.
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Nov 24, 2022 · Standing behind a wooden lectern, he announced that the tiny Pacific Island country would become the world’s first digital nation. “Since COP26, the world has not acted,” he said, while the...
