Kiribati

Kiribati

Kiribati

Kiribati

Kiribati gets 50,000 dollars.

Well they exist in the Republic of Kiribati, and Kiribati is located in the Central Pacific in three island groups.

Why are you going to this place called Kiribati?

Halfway through this process, I met the president of Kiribati,

And I would tell people, Why do I go to Kiribati?

Kiribati has frozen extracting activities at its current state while we raise the endowment.

like Kiribati and Nauru, they were seated at the very end of these immensely long rows.

And the deal that they strike is the extracting country gives Kiribati five percent of the landed value.

And it was primarily because Kiribati realized that this was in their own self interest to do this.

And I was free for dinner, and I went out to dinner with the Minister of Fisheries in Kiribati.

I'd like to go back and share it with the government of Kiribati, who are over in Tarawa, the westernmost group.

I learned that Kiribati gains most of its revenue it's a very poor country but it gains what revenue is has by selling access to foreign nations to take fish out of its waters, because Kiribati does not have the capacity to take the fish itself.

This is a serious consequence for nations like Kiribati, you know, where the average elevation is about a little over a meter above sea level.

And tomorrow, I'll be leaving this boat to fly back to Kiribati to continue with the third and final stage of my row across the Pacific.

This sea is an archipelago belonging to Kiribati that spans across the equator and it has several uninhabited, unfished, pristine islands and a few inhabited islands.

And that insured that we could move this forward and it would have both the self interest of Kiribati as well as the self interest of the world.

One is, remember I'm a politician, so you've got to go out and work with my ministers and convince the people of Kiribati that this is a good idea.

Four years ago, I rowed solo across the Atlantic, and since then, I've done two out of three stages across the Pacific, from San Francisco to Hawaii and from Hawaii to Kiribati.

I had never heard of the islands 10 years ago, nor the country, Kiribati, that owns them, till two friends of mine who run a liveaboard dive boat in Fiji said, Greg, would you lead a scientific expedition up to these islands?

Sea levels are rising, and Kiribati, along with 42 other nations in the world, will be under water within 50 to 100 years due to climate change and the associated sea level rise from thermal expansion and the melting of freshwater into the ocean.

So I went to Conservation International and brought them in as a partner and went through the process of valuing the fishery resource, deciding how much Kiribati should be compensated, what the range of the fishes were, brought in a whole bunch of other partners the government of Australia, the government of New Zealand, the World Bank.