The early impacts of climate change are already being observed by people living in vulnerable communities:
On 18 April 2008 the Office of the Governor of Pohnpei, one of the four Federated States of Micronesia, declared municipalities in its outer islands to be in a state of emergency due to saltwater incursion of taro fields. The declaration states that ‘the sources of food and livelihood of the people from these outer municipalities are threatened by the global warming that has resulted in unprecedented incursion of seawater into the agricultural lands; whereas the seawater incursion has resulted in the tremendous decline of agricultural production which in turn poses serious risks to sustenance and health conditions of the people’.
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Source: Climate Frontlines