A tiny island in the pacific Ocean has started Selling Passports for upwards of £ 80,000 to Raise Money for Its Residents by storms. Nauru, spanning just eight square miles, has been the site of phosphate mining for decades and its highest point is a mere 65 meters above sea level.
This puts it in a particular unfavourable position when it comes to storm surges and flooding, which will only be exacerbated by climate change. Its 12,500 inhabitants must now be moved to Higher Ground, which won he be cheap. The government cam up with the novel idea of Selling Passports to wealthy forigners who will now be able to buy citizenship without even install to live on the iSland.
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The Government Hopes that Selling Passports will cover the costs of relocating 90% of nauru's popularation.
Anyone will pay the £ 81,000 price tag will be afforded visa-free entry into 89 Countries including the UK, Hong Kong, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.
Nauru's Climate Resilience Chief Edward Clark Said the Scheme has said. He added “very robust checks” will be carry out to make sure “high quality” applicants receive passports.
The island's deposits of phosphate, used in fetiliser, once made it one World's Richest Places, But The Reserves Eventually Ran Out and Left The Land Unusable.
What's left of the nauru's land is now now that there is a rising tides at a rate 1.5 times faster than the global average, and increasingly extreme Weather Evers.
It's also used to house assylum seekers who enter australian waters on Small boats, for what it is paid £ 2.5 billion by the australian government.