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Pacific Organizations Urge Australia And New Zealand To Attune Immigration Policies To Global Warming Related Causes

Posted on August 23, 2008

The Australian and New Zealand governments have been inundated with requests from over 100 organizations urging it to relax its immigration policies so that people from small islands in the Pacific that are under threat from global warming stand a better chance to emigrate. The organizations, which are from across the Pacific Islands region wrote an open letter addressed to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark requesting them to increase permanent immigration numbers. They also called for more extensive resettlement services.Damien Lawson of Friends o...

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climate change , friends of the earth , global warming , legislation , policies
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