Climate Refugees - 40 Families From Carterets Islands - Arrive In Papua New Guinea

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BUKA, Papua New Guinea, Oct 31 Asia Pulse - Bougainville expects the first 40 families of Carterets Island to move into their new mainland location by March next year, Administrator Raymond Masono said yesterday., reports Post Courier.

They are still negotiating with landowners of Baniu Plantation for the piece of land which they would resettle on as their permanent home under the major climate change resettlement exercise.

Mr Masono, however, said that the exercise would cost the Autonomous Bougainville and PNG Government millions, starting next year through to 2014.

Carterets Islanders have become the world's first climate change refugees according to a recent United Nations Report. The 1500 residents of Carterets Island, an atoll of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, are fast becoming the world's first climate change refugees as officially stated.

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