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Climate-vulnerable Islands in Spotlight Ahead of UN Disaster Risk Reduction Forum in Mexico

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Rabi Island, Fiji. Rising sea levels and more extreme weather events pose an imminent threat to low-lying atoll islands across the Pacific. Photo: OCHA/Danielle Parry

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–22 May 2017 – Hurricanes, cyclones and tsunamis are increasingly common threats to the world’s most climate-vulnerable island nations, whose representatives are meeting today in Cancun, Mexico, ahead of a major United Nations conference on risk reduction.

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Addressing dozens of delegates from small island developing States, Robert Glasser, Special…

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