Environmental Protection Ministry initiating plan to deal with potential damage to coastal cities despite Energy Ministry's resistance to emissions bill

UN panel warns that despite 2015 pledge to limit temperature rises to 1.5 degrees Celsius, current and planned future use of fossil fuels makes over 2 degree rise more likely

Antonio Guterres says 900 million people living in low-lying regions, including small islands and major coastal cities, may become climate refugees if global warming ignored

Villas at luxury Cyprus Shore unprotected from fierce waves, which are swallowing hillside; rocks laid daily to defend slope, but cause increase in sand loss along beach

Experts predict potential 2-meter rise by 2100 and 5 meters by 2150, if global warming gas emissions continue to climb