Rising seas risk ‘death sentence’ for some nations: warns UN chief

UNITED NATIONS: The UN Secretary-General warned on Tuesday that global warming could force mass exodus on a “biblical scale” as people flee low-lying communities and called for implementing a legal framework specifically for refugees. are called to do.
“The threat is particularly acute for the nearly 900 million people living in coastal areas at low altitude – that’s one in ten people on Earth,” Antonio Guterres told the UN Security Council.