‘All in same canoe’: What’s it like being young on a sinking small island?

Youth climate activist Litokne Kabua at home in Ebeye, Marshall Islands. He was part of a group that filed a landmark complaint with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in 2019, accusing major carbon-emitting countries of violating their rights [Courtesy of Litokne Kabua]

When it comes to climate change, the low-lying Marshall Islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean are as front line as it gets.

The atoll state’s 60,000 inhabitants are witnessing the visible shrinking of their shores. Most of the 1,000 islands, spread out over 29 atolls, are only two metres above the swollen ocean.