Monash Uni Launches Climate Aid for Pacific Island

Located about 3000 km north-east of Australia, Nauru is 21 square kilometres, with a population ofapproximately 11,000 residents. Limited by remoteness, with a lack of natural resources outside fisheries, the island's interior has been gutted by more than a century of open-cut phosphate mining. Past mining practices have rendered more than 80 per cent of its landmass uninhabitable anddevastated the landscape. This has increased Nauru's vulnerability to climate change, with most of its population living on thecoast and exposed to inundation from rising sea levels, king tides, storm surges, rain pattern changes, seawater acidification and coastal erosion. PACT has been engaged by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), a Pacific Islands-based…