Former Kiribati president Anote Tong discusses his campaign to save the low-lying Pacific nation from global warming, on January 22, 2018, the subject of Canadian filmmaker Matthieu Rytz’s documentary "Anote's Ark." With its pristine sands, glistening saltwater flats and gently swaying palms, Kiribati ought to be a tropical paradise -- but this precarious slice of heaven on Earth is on borrowed time. (Credit: AFP)
A founding father of the Pacific climate movement on Thursday welcomed an international court's decision on global warming but said he fears for the future of his almost 30 grandchildren on low-lying Kiribati.
Kiribati, a climate-threatened archipelago that is home to some 130,000 people, sits barely two metres (6.5 feet) above sea level, has little freshwater, no rivers and limited fertile land.
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