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Cyclone Pam Prompts Action for Vanuatu at Sendai Conference

2015-03-16 02:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Inter Press Service: Cyclone Pam has not only caused unprecedented damages to the Pacific island of Vanuatu but also lent urgency to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's plea that disaster risk reduction is in "everybody's interest". "Sustainability starts in Sendai," Ban declared at the opening of the Third World Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR), the largest-ever high-level meeting on the theme, which kicked off on Mar. 14 in Sendai, the centre of Japan's Tohoku region, which bore the brunt of the 2011...

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