NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga -- More countries should introduce pathways to facilitate migration for people impacted by climate change, as the Pacific becomes "ground zero" for extreme weather that will play out globally in the years to come, International Organization for Migration Director General Amy Pope told Nikkei Asia.
Pope cited the example of Australia, which became the first country in the world to establish a visa class specifically for people vulnerable to the effects of climate change when it signed the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union treaty last year.
