Pacific island nations are preparing to integrate their disaster risk management and climate change adaptation strategies, a move that is expected to change how millions of dollars in related aid will be dispensed in the high-risk region in the coming years.
The first-ever joint meeting of the Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management and Pacific Climate Change Roundtable in Fiji wrapped up earlier this month with delegates from governments, civil society and other development partners agreeing to speed up the process of hatching a unified strategy for dealing with disasters and climate change to be adopted by governments by 2016.
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