In a boost for Pacific Islands such as Tuvalu under threat from rising seas, Commonwealth nations agreed on October 26 that a nation’s maritime boundaries should remain fixed even if climate change causes small island states to be submerged. The 56 countries with roots in Britain’s empire issued the Commonwealth’s first Ocean Declaration at the...

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