Podcasts about tulele peisa

Climate change has seen entire coastal communities relocate, from Cateret Islands in Bougainville to the village of Vunidogoloa on Vanua Levu, Fiji.

This late into the climate crisis, it’s now time for us to embrace adaptation as a solution, as communities reconsider the fight for their ancestral homes. We welcome Mary’s friend, Ursula Rakova, executive director of Tulele Peisa on the Carteret Islands, who is helping almost its entire population migrate to safe land. And Executive Director of the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy, Colette Pichon-Battle of Louisiana, USA who unpacks her work amongst local communities in the Bayou.

A conversation with Ursula Rakova of Tulele Peisa, a nonprofit formed by the elders of the Carteret Islands to direct the relocation of their communities from their low-lying island chain to the “big island” of Bougainville in Papau New Guinea. While the Paris framework considered 1.5 Celsius an aspirational target, increasingly cities are declaring 1.5 their goal right out of the gate, as has San Antonio. This movement from 'less-than-two' to 1.5 or less is hardly incidental but rather life or death for many of the world's low-lying island states, representatives of which pushed back hard on the 2-degree Paris proposal, insisting they needed “1.5 to stay alive.”

The people of the Carteret Islands, a coral atoll off the coast of Bougainville, in Papua New Guinea, have been called the world's first climate refugees.Like many low-lying islands in the Pacific, the Carterets have been experiencing the effects of climate change first-hand. They have watched as their shorelines have been eroded by the sea, king-tides have swept right across their small islands, and salt water has literally bubbled-up through the ground. We hear from Ursula Rakova, director of Tulele Peisa, which is coordinating the migration of Carteret islanders to Bougainville."We need to act, and we need to act now... Australia needs to act immediately... we cannot wait anymore" -Ursula Rakova.Guests: Ursula Rakova (Tulele Peisa); Wendy Flannery (Climate Frontlines, FoE Brisbane)Links and more information:Make a tax dudctable donation to Tulele PeisaClimate Frontlines collective - Friends of the Earth Brisbane'“The Sea Walls Are Out In The Sea”: World's First Climate Refugees Ask For Australia's Help' - New Matilda'Rising Waters: How Fast and How Far Will Sea Levels Rise?' - Environment 360 

This episode of Women on the Line will focus on the recent Paris climate talks, also known as COP21. We speak with two women who went to Paris for COP21, Maori activist Sina Brown-Davis, and Ursula Rakova from the Carteret Islands, an atoll north east of Bougainville in the Pacific which is in the process of relocating its population due to the encroaching of the sea.If listeners want to support Carteret Islanders in their relocation by donating to Tulele Peisa [http://www.tulele-peisa.org/] they can do so using the following account details. Donations will help the organisation to buy local materials such as timber to build housing.Carterets Trust Fund Bank of South Pacific (PNG)Branch - BUKAACCOUNT NUMBER: 1001202728 (8336) Swift Code: BOSPPGPM 

Ursula Rakova runs Tulele Peisa, a project that helps families move from the disappearing Carteret islands to mainland Bougainville, in Papua New Guinea. http://tulele-peisa.org