20 November 2013, UNFCCC, Warsaw Poland - Samoa was featured during a special World Bank event at the UN Climate talks to launch their report called 'Building Resilience Integrating Climate and Disaster Risk Into Development' which describes how the costs and damages from more extreme weather are growing rapidly.
In 1999, a Category 5 cyclone devastated the state of Odisha in India, leaving 10,000 people dead and causing $4.5 billion in damages. Fourteen years later, Phailin, another monster storm almost as strong, hit the same stretch of the state – except this time with a very different outcome: Fewer than 40 people were killed and economic losses were about $700 million.
Read more on the SPREP website: http://www.sprep.org/climate-change/samoa-speaks-at-event-on-building-resilience-loss-and-damage