22. Climate change and the survival of small island states: The new Tuvalu-Australia Treaty

This week Imogen Saunders chairs a discussion with Alex Green and Douglas Guilfoyle on their forthcoming article "The Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union Treaty: Statehood and Security in the Face of Anthropogenic Climate Change". Can a state still exist without land territory? Is the new Australia-Tuvalu treaty a landmark climate mobility agreement of a neo-colonial arrangement? An advance access version of the article is available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4961093 The text of the Falepili Union Treaty is available at: https://www.dfat.gov.au/sites/default/files/australia-tuvalu-falepili-union-treaty.pdf Music: Sam Barsh, Oils of Au Lait