In March 2012, President Anote Tong of Kiribati, an archipelago nation in the Pacific, informed international journalists that his Cabinet has endorsed a plan to buy 6,000 acres on Fiji’s main island. This was not for real estate speculation, but for more humanitarian reasons. The land in Fiji would help Tong’s government to repatriate its citizens if sea level rise due to climate change was to submerge the Kiribati islands.

This year in February, Tong’s counterpart in Fiji, President Epeli Nailatikau, reassured Kiribati citizens by saying, “if all else fails, you will not be refugees. You will be able to migrate with dignity. Fiji will not turn its back on our neighbours in their hour of need.”

In recent years, and especially since the 2009 Copenhagen Conference of Parties to the Climate Change Convention, the leaders of the small island states have loved the dramatic.

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