Nov 15 (Reuters) – Tuvalu said on Tuesday it plans to build a digital version of itself, replicating islands and landmarks and preserving its history and culture as rising sea levels threaten to submerge the small island nation of Tuvalu. Peaceful.

Tuvalu’s Foreign Minister Simon Kofe told the COP27 climate summit that it was time to seek alternative solutions for his country’s survival and this included Tuvalu becoming the first digitized nation in the metaverse, an online kingdom. that uses augmented and virtual reality (VR) to help users. Reciprocity.

“Our land, our ocean, our culture are the most precious assets of our people and to keep them safe from harm, whatever happens in the physical world, we will take them to the cloud,” he said in the video seen. him standing on a digital replica of…