Summary of the French contribution to the SPDMM report

The South Pacific is often seen as one of the areas most exposed to the impacts of climate change in the world. Small island states, even if they are far from being the only ones affected, bear witness to the effects of climate change more than any other, and particularly to rising sea levels. In this context, small islands will often serve as laboratories, experimental spaces in which the uncertainties that still surround the local impacts of climate change will be miniaturised, reduced to the single issue of sea level rise. However, the impacts of climate change that these areas are and will be confronted with go far beyond the single issue of sea level rise.