%0 Book %A Hamilton, Clive %T The Commonwealth and sea-level rise %X According to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), some Commonwealth developing countries face severe threats from climate change and none more so than small island states and low-lying areas of larger countries. While industrialized countries are responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions that are transforming the world's climate, the impacts of climate change will be most severe in poor countries.