Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East make us forget that climate change has also long since claimed its victims. Its geographical effects are inevitably fueling social stress, political tensions and even military violence.

This week, one of the world’s largest fossil fuel exporters went to a meeting of island states strongly affected by human-induced climate change.

The devastating calamities India has faced over the past few months certainly seem to suggest that climate change is already manifesting and has come to alter, if not tear asunder, human lives.

On Saturday 13th July, Tuvalu’s Prime Minister Faleti Teo met with the Tuvalu diaspora community in Brisbane, the largest Tuvaluan community in Australiam, to discuss the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union Treaty.

After two decades, the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) has this year commemorated the monumental journey of environmental leadership by Pacific Christian churches and enabled their recommitment to climate action through a regional and ecumenical reconvening of Pacific church leaders and partners.

Australia needs a national conversation about relocation now.