Pacific leaders, community delegates, donors and other development partners are converging in Nadi, Fiji from July 8-11 for the first joint meeting of the Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management and Pacific Climate Change Roundtable in a bid to create a more holistic approach to strengthening resilience to natural disasters in a region of mostly small island states at risk of the effects of climate change.
The 2013 United Nations Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction published last May warned of a spike in sea levels and resulting floods and storms facing low-lying islands in the Pacific, which include the drought-stricken Marshall Islands.
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Source: DevEx