Fighting climate change with imaginative methods in East Timor
• Nov 15, 2025, 10:02 AM
1 min de lecture
As countries gather in Brazil for the COP 30 climate change conference, FRANCE 24 travels to East Timor, where global warming is wreaking havoc on the fishing industry. The isolated island nation and its 1.4 million people face coastal erosion, rising sea levels and dwindling marine resources. In response, local people are using imaginative methods to tackle overfishing. Report by Juliette Chaignon, Guillaume Gosalbes and Justin McCurry.
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