/As the climate continues to warm, entire islands are sinking below rising waters caused from melting . Achim Steiner United Nations Under Secretary General & UN Environment Programme Executive Director Indeed there are many island nations who are doomed already now, condemned if you want to disappear. Therefore there is no question that we have to act. And that is just the beginning of the visible impact of climate change. The invisible part, the bits that we have not necessarily understood that are happening around us are also on their ATE REFUGEES:25 million people uprooted in 2007President Tong of the Island Nation of Kiribati:We have whole communities, having to be relocated, villages which have been there over a decade maybe the century and now they have to be relocated, and where theyve being living for the last few decades is no longer there. It has been LEAST 18 ISLANDS SUBMERGED AROUND THE WORLD: