Young people are bridging the climate divide for Oceania and the Caribbean

Young climate activists from Fiji and the Dominican Republic describe rising seas pushing into homes, raised wooden foundations as makeshift defenses, and aid projects — roads, drainage systems — begun and then abandoned mid-build.

Community leader John Whippy and journalist Zahiris Priscila Francisco Martínez say residents are often reluctant to ask for outside help, and that when help comes, it frequently stops before the job is done, leaving communities to manage the consequences alone.

The piece contrasts Australian climate impacts, bushfires, floods, cyclones, with the more immediate daily threat facing Small Island Developing States that contribute under one percent of global emissions yet bear disproportionate damage.

The full dispatch is available from the source below.