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2011
January 2011	CROP REM WG :: Meeting PDN Partners Meeting :: Meeting DRM Meeting :: Meeting Managers Meet :: Meeting LTSFS Meet :: Meeting SPC Meet SOPAC :: Meeting Project Team :: Meeting
February 2011	CROP REM WG :: Meeting Corporate Services Divison :: Meeting Mainstreaming mission and AusAID DRM Programme mee ... :: Meeting SOPAC Managers Meet :: Meeting ACP-EU NDF Steering Committee Meeting, Belgium :: Meeting Management meet :: Meeting EU Officials and Climate Change :: Meeting
March 2011	Climate Change round table meeting :: Meeting SPC Executive planning :: Meeting RMI National Water Summit :: Meeting Palau National Water Summit :: Meeting FSM National Water Summit :: Meeting
April 2011	CROP Joint JCS Mission to RMI :: Meeting Mission to FSM,GM and Palau :: Meeting IPCC meeting - Belize :: Meeting
June 2011	Regional Water Meeting :: Meeting
July 2011	CROP HEADS MEETING :: Meeting GEF Pacific IWRM Project's 3rd Regional Steering C ... :: Meeting
August 2011	Regional Disaster Managers Meeting :: Meeting PPAC,PACP,SIS AND FOC MEET :: Meeting
September 2011	Forum leaders meeting and associated meetings :: Meeting
October 2011	CRGA 41 :: Meeting SOPAC Inaugral Heads of Geoscience Meeting :: Meeting

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In May 2006 a magnitude 7.9 earthquake caused the western coastline of Tonga’s Lifuka Island to subside by 23cm. After this unique event Lifuka was chosen as part of a regional effort to understand how vulnerable Pacific Island communities can adapt to the impacts of rising sea levels.

The Australian-funded Pacific Adaptation Strategy Assistance Program enabled scientists to work closely with the Lifuka community to determine three main adaptation options: planned migration inland; sand replenishment and; the construction of an engineered revetment or seawall.

This film, which follows on from the first documentary ‘Rising Oceans: Changing Lives’, examines Lifuka’s struggle to make the tough choices needed to adapt to the changing coastline of a future Pacific.

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