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Focus on climate change and disaster risk management

FIJI will be hosting the next international climate change talks known as COP23 during November in Germany.

The talks are estimated to cost US$26.7 million.

According to RNZI, New Zealand and Australia are to give Fiji more than US$5 million to help host the climate change talks

Australia’s US$4.28 million will help Fiji’s COP23 secretariat and also support consultations among Pacific countries to ensure they can all contribute to the presidency

Fiji has already received funding from China, the United States, the European Union and Germany, and organisations such as UNDP and the Asian Development Bank, according to RNZI.

Meanwhile in a separate development, it is reported in the Solomon’s media that a high level government delegation from the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Meteorology (MECDM) will attend the 2017 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction forum which commences this coming Monday, May 22 ending Friday, May 26, at Cancun in Mexico.

Organised by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), the biennial forum is the most important international forum dedicated to the disaster risk reduction agenda, and this will be the first time it has been staged outside Geneva

Several thousand representatives of governments, international organisations and civil society networks are expected to attend the global conference and discuss how to reduce loss of life and economic losses from disasters caused by man-made and natural hazards, the most important multilateral forum in its kind.

Yours sincerely

Frank Short