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Displaced, poisoned, jailed: Climate change survivors confront world leaders

Climate chaos is destroying these people’s communities. They travelled to COP27 to demand justice for loss and damage

Displaced, poisoned, jailed: Climate change survivors confront world leaders
Banaba representative Rae Bainteiti, Amalia Vargas from the Chicha Nation in the Northern Andes, and Zé Bajaga Apurina, Amazonia chief of the Aldeia Idecora TI Caititu tribe in Brazil at COP27 | Amelia Womack (Rae and Zhe) / Amalia Vargas
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For the Banaban people, the threat of being displaced from their homes by increasingly frequent cyclones reopens old wounds.

They were forced by British colonial rulers to leave their ancestral homeland 77 years ago after phosphate mining led by the UK, New Zealand and Australia stripped 90% of the surface of their Pacific coral island.

Now their existing homes 1,000 miles away on Rabi Island in Fiji may also become uninhabitable due to the polluting activities of wealthy countries.