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President cyclone-hit Vanuatu urges global action on disasters

2015-03-15 11:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Governments meeting in Japan to adopt a new global plan to reduce the risk of disasters should heed the devastation caused by a fierce cyclone in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu and take practical action, the country's president said. "The reality of what is happening now is in Vanuatu," President Baldwin Lonsdale told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview on Sunday in the northeastern Japanese city of Sendai, where the U.N. conference is taking place. "We don't have to depend...

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