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This report focuses on three key objectives: (i) how does climate change affect children in the Pacific and how will it affect them in the future; (ii) which stakeholders are already actively dealing with climate change issues across the Pacific region

A recent project, the Pacific Disaster Risk Assessment could have a major influence on how Pacific Island countries deal with natural hazards including earthquake, tropical cyclones, tsunami, severe local storms, floods, storm surges, and landslides, reports the Solomon Times...

Three Pacific Ocean countries today appealed to United Nations Member States to act fast to combat climate change and start mobilizing the resources needed to mitigate the effects of global warming, especially in small island developing States that are particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels...

Item 41 of the provisional agenda of the 185th session of the Executive Board of UNESCO:

This document focuses on developments and highlights results obtained by the SIDS Platform over the 2008-2009 biennium, thus aligning with the closing period of the

This report reviews the progress made in addressing the vulnerabilities of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) through the implementation of the Mauritius Strategy, which includes natural and environmental disasters as one of its themes and means of

'Events like the 2009 tsunami that devastated Samoa and Tonga, and floods that submerged Fiji’s Western Division in January 2009, are constant reminders that people and governments must be prepared to deal with natural disasters at a moment’s notice' said Mosese Sikivou, SOPAC DRR Programme...

Migration as an adaptive measure: Mohamed Nasheed, president of the Maldives, has spoken openly about moving all 370,000 residents to another country if, as looks likely, rising waters cover the islands, most of which are less than 1.5m above sea level...

Working paper 1: country by country vulnerability to climate change:

This report provides information on the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in relation to their population size, reliance on certain sectors, vulnerabilities to climate change, and