Implications of climate change and sea level rise for the Kingdom of Tonga: report of a preparatory mission

Abstract

Irrespective of which part of the world one lives in, the environment now figures highly on most national agendas, be they economic, political or social, and among the many environmental issues, one dominates. Global climate change hangs over all of us like the sword of Damocles, alarming because of the enormous scale of the phenomenon, our inability to delineate its exact configuration, and our apparent incapacity to check its course.