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The Guardian is a plan to escape rising sea levels by Kate Lyons.

For the past four years, a special government task force in Fiji has been trying to work out how to move the country.

The plan it has come up with runs to 130 pages of dense text, interspersed with intricate spider-graphs and detailed timelines.

The document has an uninspiring title, standard operating procedures for planned relocations.

But it is the most thorough plan ever devised to tackle one of the most urgent consequences of the climate crisis.

How to relocate communities whose homes will soon be or who already are underwater.

The task is huge. Fiji, which lies in the South Pacific, 1800 miles east of Australia, has more than 300 islands and a population of just under 1 million.

Like most of the Pacific, it is starkly susceptible to the impacts of the climate crisis.

Surface temperatures and ocean heat in parts of the southwest Pacific are increasing three times faster than a global average rate.

Severe cyclones routinely batter the region.

In 2016, cyclone winced in Hid Fiji, killing 44 people and causing $1.4 billion of damage, a third of Fiji's GDP.

Since then, Fiji has been hit by a five or six cyclones.

Five of the 15 countries, most at risk from weather-related events, are in the Pacific.

Fiji is number 14.

What Fiji is attempting to do is unprecedented.

For years, politicians and scientists have been talking about the prospect of climate migration.

In Fiji, and in much of the Pacific, this migration has already begun.

Here, the question is no longer if communities will be forced to move, but how exactly to do it.

At present, 42 Fiji invillages have been marked for potential relocation in the next five to ten years,

owing to the impacts of climate crisis.

Six have already been moved.

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