“We will not wait for the waves to wash away our homes and infrastructure,” Nauru’s President David Adeang told the COP29 conference in June.
And now, the 21-square-kilometre (8.1 sq mi) nation—the world’s third smallest, after Vatican City and Monaco—has launched an audacious plan that it hopes will ensure its survival: it’s selling citizenships.
According to the Multidimensional Vulnerability Index (MVI), Nauru is ranked fifth among the most “vulnerable” countries globally, and the most vulnerable in the Pacific for its heightened exposure to economic and environmental shocks.
The inhabitants of the Micronesian nation, numbering just 12,028 according to U.N. estimates, are among many deemed to be at risk from rising sea levels….
Nauru Launches Citizenship Sale Scheme to Fund Climate Survival Plan
