Presentation at Many Strong Voices Workshop, 1st April, Washington DC.

1. Rolph Payet, Seychelles Second Many Strong Voices Stakeholders Workshop, 1-3 April 2009,OAS, Washington

4. IPCC, 2007

5. Extreme Events (unpredicatable/cyclic) El Nino (Coral Bleaching) Transboundary Impacts (cumulative) Sea-level rise ( Climate Change) Resource Uses (predictable/crowding) Development Pressure Local Impacts (direct,sustained) Poor Planning

9. Elevation AMSL = 1.5 m Area = 1.5 km2 Population = 25,000 400m 132m Source: SOPAC

10. Elevation AMSL = 1.5 m Area = 0.6 km2 Population = 1,500 Human History= 1,000 yrs Exp. Submergence:2015

11. Coping ability Sustainability Vulnerability

15. A peninsula long thought to be part of Greenland's mainland turned out to be an island when a glacier retreated. (Jeff Shea for The New York Times)