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Online sources:

Picture credits:

Header : Greenpeace Finland, here.

Flag of Tuvalu: erjkprunczyk,here.

Map of Tuvalu on the globe (introduction video): Wikimedia commons, here.

Map of the nine islands of Tuvalu (introduction video): What’s cooking in your world website, here.

Close-up of the island: Treehuger website, here.

Picture of the island (introduction video): Photograph: Matthieu Paley/Matthieu Paley/Corbis

Picture of the Tuvalu flooded (introduction video): 350.org, here.

Picture 2 of Tuvalu flooded (introduction video): Greenpeace

Picture of François Gemmene: IDDRI website, here.

Picture of Juriaan Booij: courtesy of Juriaan Booij

Picture of John Connell:Tiempocyberclimate website, here.

Picture of Alofa Tuvalu/ Fanny Héros: courtesy of Alofa Tuvalu.

Timeline: picture of Copenhagen: Oxfam International, here.

picture of Tuvalu at the UN: UN, here.

Music credit:

Song (Introduction video): I want I want – Digitalism

Scholarly articles:

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Paeniu, B. (1997). “TUVALU STATEMENT PRESENTED BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE RT HON Bikenibeu Paeniu”, online at here.

Price, T (2002). “The Canary is Dying: Tiny Tuvalu Fights Back Against Climate Change”, online here.

Ralston, H., Horstmann, B., and Holl, C. “Climate Change, Challenges Tuvalu”, online here.

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SOPOANGA, S. (2003). Statement by The Honourable Saufatu Sopoanga OBE Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tuvalu, 58th United Nations General Assembly (online) here.

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Xue, Chunting (2005). “Causes of Land Loss in Tuvalu, a Small Island Nation in the Pacific”, Journal of Ocean University of China 4(2): 115-123.