Pacific island nations seek to turn geopolitics into funding to offset climate harm

• KOROR, Palau -- When stormy seas batter Melekeok state on Palau’s biggest island, the Pacific Ocean floods right into people’s homes.
• “We keep telling the legislature we need to move inward,” said Bol Sebalt, 43, who was born and raised on the low-lying beachfront.
• “But because of a shortage of funding we cannot.