14 JUNE 2015
Peace Corps Director Ms. Carrie Hessler-Radelet joined Director General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environmental Program (SPREP), David Sheppard, to sign a Memorandum of Understanding between the two organisations that will strengthen the region's response to climate change by placing Peace Corps Volunteers within SPREP.
The Pacific islands are amongst the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, across the region with the environment and income sources of the Pacific islands negatively impacted by rising sea levels, extreme rainfall and cyclones.
Source: SPREP