This is after the Department of Climate Change and National Resilience officially launched the Higher Ground Initiative master plan on 4 August.
The statement issued by the government said “The master plan details Nauru’s first smart village, addressing socio-economic and environmental issues, through long-term planning of the migration of people and vital infrastructure to higher ground.”
In his speech, Minister for DCCNR Rennier Gadabu said “phosphate mining brought the country an income but it left us with land where we could not build; that is changing”.
