Climate change is producing drastic changes to Earth processes and changing Earth's

environmental status quo. Especially pertinent to human development is the threat of climate change
on island nations. As sea levels continue to rise, island peoples and cultures are being threatened.
There are small and low populated islands that don’t have the money to protect the island. People
from those islands may not have the resources to move off the island. The former President of
the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Christopher Loeak, said "In the last year alone, my country has
suffered through unprecedented droughts in the north, and the biggest ever king tide in the south;
and we have watched the most devastating typhoons in history leave a trail of death and destruction
across the region."[1] Efforts to combat these environmental changes are ongoing and multinational.
Particularly notable is the adoption of the Paris agreement at the UN Climate Summit in 2015.

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