 In tomoru, when we have the south liwin, that's the time it's very rough. And that's when the thing started eroding. When I was in class 4, I went around the grave. But right now, it's opposite. I'm going behind the grave. Mata uchukoviyon, uchukon na ua ni siwita chukon avali. Climate change has affected us. Even the soil, when we plant, it was not like before when we plant. We have healthy crops. Now it's dying. So water is eaten through. I grew up in Navua. And we used to swim out just, you know, with the amount of land just out here. And it's shocking to come back after 28 years and see the amount of land has washed away, eroded from climate change. We are in Navua. We are in Navua. We are in Navua. We are in Navua. We have been to Navua. We are in Navua. We are in Navua. Small island developing states are among the worst affected by sea level rise, and Fiji's no exception. With more than 300 islands that are spread out over more than 18,000 square kilometers, Fiji's population is one of the most vulnerable on the planet. The coastal settlement of Tomoru is about 60 minutes away from the capital city. The people here have looked on as the sea mercilessly took away the ancestral graves which are now surrounded by the sea. But when I got married, when I was married, we used to walk around the grave. There was a big wutu tree, wutuwae, right there, right there. And then we used to go around. Before, we on the beach side, we only know that on the east, we have spring tides. But now, it's almost every second week spring tide. Every time, 6 o'clock high tide, it's spring. And water is just overflowing. This was all covered with water, right up there, water from the back. And the covenants, all floating. And how else does it affect you guys? Effectively, we can plant for anything. Before, we still have got cassava plantation. Never run out of cassava and things. And that's it. We affected that we can't plant anything. Where was your plantation? Right over here, plantation, right over there. Plantation, we had a plantation there and we had a mbure. Professor Rajib Shaw is one of the lead authors of the IPCC Working Group 2 report about adaptation and specializes on small island developing states. When it comes to the climate change, I think we need a more sense of urgency rather than just thinking it as a not an immediate priority. We are thinking, okay, we'll be doing something in the line of next 30 years, 50 years, 70 years down the line. We'll be doing something. So the sense of urgency in action is extremely, extremely important. Bula, my name is Thomas Dunn and this is my settlement. This is where my dad and our ancestors were brought up here. Climate change has affected us. Really affected us. We can tell the difference here the land has been eaten a lot. We asked for aid and the government said that they'll make a sea wall for us. They said it's still on the pipeline but we don't know when. When will we have the sea wall done? So we'll just have to hope for the best. My grandfather and my dad and all my uncles the time we did not have tanks. They drank from the well. In the small island there will be a major issue on the fresh water availability of the fresh water due to change in the precipitation pattern the rainfall pattern and also like possibly use overuse of the groundwater where there are fresh water availability. So fresh water issue for the small island developing states will be a major problem and this is possibly even in the globally I think the small island developing states will be the most impacted when it comes to the fresh water availability. This is how much we treasure water. We keep it in buckets and bottles. We contain them after boiling. This is our well and we rational water and we bath in the well. Here is the well. Yes, sometimes when there is drought we suffer. There is no water. But here we treasure water. Water is gold here to us. This is our new grave site because after that one gone in the sea we got a new one. But the problem is this place all salt water around. So we just bury people when it's low tide. You can't bury people when it's high tide. The chiefly village of Vewatulua is part of the Namosi province and residents of the Twinamosi the high chief of Namosi. Around 200 people live here. We are not alone. We live alone. It's like a treasure sea. There are many things which have been destroyed by the Namosi. Namosi is as the Namosi people are in. It's here to us, to us who are living in the Namosi. That's the name of this house. It's here to us, Mancini. If the land is heavy, because of theta waves here, it becomes a good place. We just bury people. bini bini na batu. Sheseng do na itubutu wangu bini. Kwengana itubutu wai na koru kwengan reba tukana hunbala tunumus. Bidu wanga misalaka. Now, a few issues which the science says that tropical cyclone, tropical cyclone in terms of both severity and frequency, it will increase. And these actually are already superimposing the already sea level rise impact. It will also have some very strong impact on the critical infrastructure, especially the lifelines, as well as also the agriculture and the food production of the countries. When the wind previewsais, the winds will get through it. The wind is Politlisa. The wind is until. On the other hand, they will naturally increase and ah Lotus willspray to protect the planet. It帮ba waa Unелюanta mem对 ibu And those numbers will have changes that will affect the climate. Nila kumindona vangilama vami uweli. Nia ya, vami biorna nangoni. Usaganda utama kira nga nangoni mera kawna voli ni nia voli ya kia voli iwa rukini. Patana kukuweni uwa, pata kina vangindola kuma. Asi akeza maata wana dubangwe matini mava kumatini weiti. Sa maata wiki ito wana chuku chuku wana chuku chuku waka ito wana rukini matini bunwa. Waka waka ito waka ito waka matini bunwa. We need to possibly depend very strongly on what we call the ecosystem-based adaptation processes. As I mentioned that there will be and there are already some changes in the ecosystems in the coastal area. But we need to, we can't just make sort of hard infrastructure just to protect everything. We possibly need to depend on more blue and green infrastructure and focusing more on these ecosystem-based issues both in the mountain area, forest area, as well as in the coastal ecosystem. Because staying in Suva, staying in interiors, you won't feel anything regarding climate change. But staying in Aalil, you'll see the sea level rise before my father, my grandfather used to go out fish. And now once they come back, they don't have any fish. Now, before it used to be plenty. So in Lakkamba, what we have been doing so far is in terms of climate change. We have been planting corals, a natural type of sea barrier, a reef. And apart from that we have been doing mangrove, we are building sea walls. Because these days the water level before it used to be very low. And now it's just pushing it up. We have done a lot of awareness now. It's time to act together. Young people are now increasingly becoming aware of the need to protect their natural environment and are becoming climate change activists at a very young age. We just hope it will get better in the future. We just have to pray hard. Every end of the year during Christmas we used to go to my village and every Christmas we can see changes. And my advice to the people near the village and the people near the river is just to be prepared because climate change is really happening so fast. The mangroves they act as necessary to fish and they also act as our windbreakers for coastal villages. So today we planted 3000 mangroves here. For that side was our first mangrove planting December 1st and we planted 2000 mangroves. And we also had our second mangrove planting over there where Maesuwa Pak Dambure. We also planted 3000 mangroves. I'm willing to write a book about the ecological footsteps. It's about how the adults of this generation messed it up for us and how my generation has to clean it up. And we may not have the privileges that the adults today have.