If I was to describe Tuvalu, I'll try to explain it in my own way.

So imagine soft westerly winds.

Imagine very calming waves.

Imagine salt water splashing to your cheeks.

Lily Tejaffa is telling me about her home, Tuvalu.

It's a nation made up of nine main islands

and over 100 tiny atolls and islets

scattered across a vast stretch of ocean in the South Pacific.

Imagine children playing mumbles right next to you.

Imagine your cousins driving past you

and calling out Tala for Lily

and imagine

diving down into the ocean, seeing the colorful creatures beneath the sea, as if you're

breathing beauty into your lungs.

But that beautiful ocean is encroaching.

The land is low-lying. No point in Tuvalu is higher than

four and a half metres above sea level. And the countries made headlines around the world

in recent years because this land, it might not exist for much longer. Climate change and sea level rise

are deadly and existential threats to Tuvalu and low-lying at all countries.

We are sinking, but so is everyone else.

Analysis by the United Nations and Mesa has found that much of Tuvalu's land area will be below the average high tide by 2050.

In the face of this, many two Valuans are moving abroad.

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