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Escape to Australia: Tuvaluans pin hopes on world's first climate visa
SYDNEY — Elaine Tauasili is aiming to leave her homeland of Tuvalu for Australia as part of the world’s first visa created specifically for people hailing from a place under threat of being made uninhabitable by climate change.
She was set on her current path five years ago when she watched Niutao Island in the northern part of Tuvalu, where she spent her childhood, getting submerged by storm waves. As the waters flooded the land where she was born, she was left feeling as if she had “nowhere to go.”