On the 14th anniversary of the 2009 tsunami, Samoa’s Acting PM stressed the need for greater climate crisis awareness, urging stronger global efforts to address climate change impacts while affected families recover and relocate to safer places
Tag: Disasters
World Bank provides US$11.5 million grant to boost Tuvalu’s Climate and disaster resilience, preparedness, and response
World Bank approves US$11.5 million grant financing to Tuvalu to improve climate and disaster risk assessment, monitoring, and emergency response, with immediate funds available in case of a natural disaster
Disaster-hit Vanuatu hopes for ‘historic’ UN climate change resolution
Vanuatu hopes for a ‘historic’ UN climate change resolution that would help establish important legal context “for many of us, who are facing the devastation caused by climate change”
Vanuatu’s existential climate threat: “Losing my country is not an option”
In the wake of the latest warning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Pacific island nation renews calls for a global phaseout of fossil fuels
Taiwan handed over US$1 million to Palau Government to implement Climate Change Project
Palau receives US$1 million to fund “Palau’s Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Project”
‘Is there going to be another tsunami?’: Tonga in limbo a year after volcano eruption
The eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai caused devastation across the Pacific Island nation that remains ongoing a year later
Pacific Disaster Ministers show leadership, Goodwill and a future vision to build a safer Pacific for communities
Pacific leaders endorsed the ‘Nadi Declaration’ to raise the bar for resilience building in the Pacific, given the escalating risks facing the region
New report highlights increased disaster risks for the Pacific
A new report revealed every increment of a degree between 1.5°C and 2°C translates into increased climate risks that will have multidimensional impacts on Pacific people and their livelihoods
New agreement boosts vital scientific collaboration in the Pacific
A new agreement to spur action on Pacific Ocean science and increase collaboration on the implementation of the UN Decade of ocean science for sustainable development
US$10 million will boost Vanuatu’s resilience and preparedness for recovery from future disasters
US$10 million to help improve Vanuatu’s resilience and preparedness for recovery from future disasters and strengthen efforts on climate change adaptation