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Dozens of island nations and thousands of individual islands are threatened by rising sea levels all over the world. They are at the frontline of the impacts of carbon emissions as a result of burning coal, gas and oil, though almost all of them are tiny, if not negligible contributors to the overall ‘pot’.
The Marshall Islands, for example, could disappear by the end of the century without radical action, but are responsible for just 0.01 per cent of emissions annually and have emitted 5 million tonnes of greenhouse gases since 1990. Here are some of the island groups most at risk.