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Tokelau

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South Pacific Island of Tokelau To Become The World's First Solar-Powered Nation|

“The Legislative Council of Tokelau passes legislation on local matters, for instance on maritime zone concerning fisheries around the waters of Tokelau.”|

An Associate Professor in international law at Victoria University, Alberto Costi, said Tokelau may not need New Zealand’s permission to declare the sanctuary.|

Places don''t get much more remote than . It would make a great backdrop for a desert-island television series. The only problem would be getting the crew there. What appears on a map as three tiny pinpoints in the midst of the Pacific Ocean are the country's tiny atolls, bringing the total size of Tokelau to a whopping 4 square miles.|

Besides the annual license fees, Freedom Registry provides Internet service to Tokelau with that satellite equipment Zuurbier brought with him. He says it costs about $2,000 a month for the same connection that would cost about $10 in the U.S.|

There was also another small problem. ICANN, the group responsible for doling out ccTLDs, didn't believe that Tokelau really existed. Luckily for Zuurbier, an ICANN board member informed the rest of the group that he had installed the island's first shortwave radio equipment there in the late 1970s. So the two sides agreed to the deal.|

The is being headed by , who aim to replace the island nation’s diesel generators with the expansive solar system. If the project is successful, it will mean that Tokelau is not only the first country to meet 100% of its climate change obligations, but also the first completely solar-powered nation on earth.|

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