In 2005, "....inhabitants in the Lateu settlement on Tegua island in Vanuatu started dismantling their wooden homes in August and moved about 600 yards (meters) inland....The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a statement that the Lateu settlement "has become one of, if not the first, to be formally moved out of harm's way as a result of climate change."
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.
A third of the population had refused to leave their island because they claimed they had spent all their lives there and would not move or claimed they would sink and vanish with the island.
Sea levels around the atoll have risen 10 centimetres in the past 20 years, inundating plantations. The situation is deteriorating, islanders told officials. They said they urgently needed assistance to be relocated to higher ground.
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