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Case Study on Global Warming, Human Rights and Global Politics

   

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Running head: GLOBAL WARMING, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND GLOBAL POLITICSGlobal warming- Human Rights and Global Politics- a Case Study on Nuatambu IslandName of the StudentStudent ID:Name of University:Author Note:

2GLOBAL WARMING, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND GLOBAL POLITICSGlobal politics associated with the decision taken by Canada to spend for the mitigationof global warming and negative change in climate in Solomon Island, specifically the USintervention in this case and withdrawal from the Paris Accord has actually been hindering theoverall progress and development of the island nation in both socio-cultural and socio-environmental aspects. Following the global diplomacy in orientation with climate change andenvironmental degradations. Resilience has emerged as one of the major challenges consideringthe plight of the island countries. Climate change has been thwarting the island countriesdevastating their socio-economic and ecological balance. This essay is going to illustrate how theensemble of livelihood and economy and cultural aspect is impacted upon by the climatechanges- specifically global warming. The case island country is the Solomon Island with specialcontemplation on Nuatambu Island region. Before looking into the deeper aspect of the study, we need to develop a cognitiveunderstanding through the knowledge of the demographic, economic, geographical andsocio-cultural structure of Solomon Island- specifically Nuatambu Island. Nuatambu is anisland in the Solomon Islands located near in Choiseul Province. The other islands of thatprovince are Cyprian Bridge Island, Veghena, Rob Roy, Taro, and Choiseul. The presentgeographical area of Nuatambu is 13,980 square meters. The entire region is the home to morethan 600,000 people depending solely on the natural resources. The major revenue source for thecountry is fishing i.e. rudimentarily primary economic activity. The challenge to the humanity of the island country has been soil erosion, the rise in sealevel and coastal flooding. According to a report by ABC News, since 1993, every year, theaverage rise in the sea level has been 7-10 millimeters.

3GLOBAL WARMING, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND GLOBAL POLITICSThere has been news of five tiny Pacific islands to have disappeared due to rise in sea levels andsoil erosion, a detection thought to be the first precise substantiation of the collision of climatechange on the shoreline in the Pacific Ocean, as many of the Australian researchers haverevealed. The inundated islands were mostly part of the Solomon Islands where important habitatis detected. Solomon Island is an archipelago with many important and unimportant islands. Theislands that had gone astray ranged from 1 to 5 hectares in size were not inhabited by humans.However, there has been a significant impact upon the habitat in terms of natural balance.However, other islands had large belt or swath of land sponged down into the sea resulting in thedestruction of the entire village. People were literally convinced or forced to put somewhere else.According to the research conducted by Dr. Albert, none more so than the brunt caused by therise in sea-level has impacted upon the communities across Melanesia thus creating an alarm forthe rest of the world. Five reef islands of Solomon Islands have completely yielded down to sea-level mount and coastal soil erosion, and auxiliary islands have been sternly gnarled. There havebeen several anecdotal chronicles across the Pacific that have, for long while detailed thedevastating effect of climate change in the seashore, villages and communities, the first scientificdata and substantiation, available in Environmental Research Letters, authenticates that rise insea-level in the area do chronicles that it is registered to be above the global average of 3mm/annum.There are other compromised islands as well, which have been veteran in terms of experiencingannual rates of sea-level rise 1993 and that has been not less than 7 mm. Nuatambu Island is aparadigmatic example of such plight as it is home to approximately 34 families that has lost morethan 50% of its total habitable area since 2011. Solomon Islands, at present, experiences highrate at the rise in sea-level. There are the home of low-lying coastal communities and sop up high

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