An international conference in Canada on climate change has heard how rising sea levels have forced a hundred people on Vanuatu to move to higher ground.
A climate change expert at the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, Taito Nakalevu, has been speaking on the sidelines of the 189-nation conference in the city of Montreal.
Mr Nakalevu says strengthening king tides have flooding the village of Lateu on Tegua island in Vanuatu between four and five times a year.
He says this has made the settlement uninhabitable, with coconut palms on the coast already standing in water.
The report says villagers started dismantling their wooden homes in August and moved about 6-hundred metres inland.
