努纳岛（Nguna）是瓦努阿图约83个岛屿中较小的一个，因此在全球气候政治中的关注度很低，但当地居民正在“近距离”承受影响。该岛不大的社区中，曾是学校操场孩子的Inneth Tasururu如今在Unakap村学校任教，说明当地人把气候议题当成自身生存问题来发声。

瓦努阿图缺乏应对这场危机规模所需的资源，并且一直要面对几乎例行化的灾害，包括地震、海啸、火山喷发以及反复出现的强烈气旋。虽然该国已宣布气候紧急状态，但在实际层面仍难见明显改善，除了没有医学院这一硬约束外，还受到土地制度和迁移摩擦的持续制约。

国家级气候专家罗布森·提戈纳指出，尽管瓦努阿图位于构造板块和火山活动带，海平面上升在当地确实存在变化，但其根源最终仍与全球冰盖和冰川融化有关。瓦努阿图国家大学的专家认为，持怀疑态度者应亲赴太平洋实地观察。

Nguna is one of the smaller islands among about 83 in the Vanuatu archipelago, which means it gets little global climate-politics attention despite residents living with climate impacts up close. On the island, Inneth Tasururu, once a pupil in Unakap’s school playground and now a teacher there, symbolizes how directly local people want to be heard.

Vanuatu lacks the resources to manage a crisis of this scale and faces nearly routine disasters—earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and recurring severe cyclones. It has declared a climate emergency, but practical gains remain limited; as a small country with no medical school, relocation is hard, and traditional land tenure overseen by the Malvatumauri Council of Chiefs can create tension over scarce resources.

Robson Tigona, the country’s leading climate specialist at the National University, says tectonic activity and volcanic conditions affect Vanuatu, but he still attributes the observed sea-level rise to global melting of ice caps and glaciers. He argues that climate skeptics should visit the Pacific to see the situation themselves rather than argue from afar.

Source: On the beach

Subtitle: UNAKAP Climate change is forcing Vanuatu to confront an unthinkable future

Dateline: The Economist May 2nd 2026