2.10C Environmental refugee

• IPCC predicts that climate change will produce a sea level rise of 26-82 cm by 2100, which would create environmental refugees by:

  • Flooding
  • Salt water encroachment (into groundwater, for drinking, irrigation and industry)
• The places most at risk from the sea level rise predicted by 2100 are the Maldives, Tuvalu, the Seychelles and Barbados. 

  • Tuvalu's highest point is 4.5 metres above sea level, and most land is only 1-2 m above