At high tide, up to 40% of its capital is underwater. Experts predict the island nation could be uninhabitable within the next 50 to 100 years, though locals fear it could be sooner.
climate change loss and damage — now a key area of climate policy — to world leaders in the early 1990s.
While digitizing the country allows Tuvalu to preserve its culture to some extent, it raises existential concerns, from questions around legal statehood without physical territory to rights of citizenship. Nevertheless, Kofe hopes the digital nation will enable Tuvalu to continue to function as a state even if fully submerged.While seven governments have already agreed to continual recognition, this particular area of international law is new, posing numerous challenges.
He then explained that the government hopes the digitization of Tuvalu, which falls under the third initiative, will enable the state to function even without a physical space."Our governance and administrative systems are operating from cyberspace," Kofe said."Our cultural knowledge, our history, all those things are digitized, fixed from cyberspace."
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