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Jennifer Redfearn on the World's First Climate Refugees

Jennifer Redfearn on the World's First Climate Refugees

In this Earth Focus interview, filmmaker Jennifer Redfearn talks with correspondent Miles Benson about her new film, "Sun Come Up," which profiles some of the world's first climate change refugees, the people of New Guinea's Carteret Islands. In the film, we meet a group of young people tasked with traveling to Bougainville, 50 miles across the sea, to negotiate a new home for their fellow islanders, who are under threat from food and water shortages, decreasing land, and an ever-increasing population.

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Jennifer Redfearn on the World's First Climate Refugees

In this Earth Focus interview, filmmaker Jennifer Redfearn talks with correspondent Miles Benson about her new film, "Sun Come Up," which profiles some of the world's first climate change refugees, the people of New Guinea's Carteret Islands. In the film, we meet a group of young people tasked with traveling to Bougainville, 50 miles across the sea, to negotiate a new home for their fellow islanders, who are under threat from food and water shortages, decreasing land, and an ever-increasing population.

Learn more about climate change and find out what you can do.

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Earth Focus

An environmental news magazine that puts a human face on the environment by featuring under-publicized stories about how changes in our environment are affecting everyday people.
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