By Beverley Mitchell, Source: Inhabitat

Ioane Teitiota from Kiribati in the South Pacific has lost his latest bid to be recognized as the world’s first climate change refugee. Since 2010, Mr. Teitiota, 37, has claimed he is the victim of “passive persecution” in his homeland as rising sea levels salinate or engulf the tiny nation. He claims that his government is unable to protect his “right to life” and that of his New Zealand-born children. Unfortunately, the New Zealand courts disagree. The Court of Appeal has labeled his case “fundamentally misconceived.”

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