The RMI is one of the countries in the world most vulnerable to climate change,[1] mainly as a result of rising sea levels.
She then transferred to the Marshall Islands embassy in Washington, D.C., where she worked for almost seven years, being responsible for liaison with the United States Congress.
She also carried out various consultancies, including for the Asian Development Bank and Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand, in the latter case working on the unresolved legacy of U.S. nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands.
[2] Two fifths of the buildings in the capital will be flooded and several of the Marshall Islands will disappear as predicted by a World Bank report.
[10] The High Ambition Group had been formed to address Tony deBrum, the former and late Marshall Islands Foreign Minister's, challenge to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees during the Paris Agreement talks.
Anna Rasmussen who was the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)'s chief negotiator was in shock that a decision had been made when they were not there.