{"id":634,"date":"2008-03-31T05:57:40","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T13:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbrace.laughingsquid.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/03\/31\/climate-refugees\/"},"modified":"2008-03-31T05:57:40","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T13:57:40","slug":"climate-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/?p=634","title":{"rendered":"Climate Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three thousand islanders in Papua New Guinea are making preparations to<br \/>\nbecome the world&#8217;s first &#8220;climate refugees&#8221; and evacuate their home in the<br \/>\nCarteret islands. The UN&#8217;s Human Rights Council says the islands are being<br \/>\neroded by sea waters that are rising due to global warming. Its report<br \/>\npredicts that people will have to abandon the islands over the next few<br \/>\nyears and resettle on nearby Bougainville island. The document comes as<br \/>\ndelegates from up to 190 nations meet in Bangkok today for UN climate<br \/>\nchange talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three thousand islanders in Papua New Guinea are making preparations to become the world&#8217;s first &#8220;climate refugees&#8221; and evacuate their home in the Carteret islands. The UN&#8217;s Human Rights Council says the islands are being eroded by sea waters that are rising due to global warming. Its report predicts that people will have to abandon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[10,11,30,38,46],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}