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UN disaster meeting opens tsunami-hit Japan
2015-03-14 03:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence-France Presse: Policymakers gathered for a ten-yearly meeting on disaster risk reduction on Saturday (Mar 14), with hopes high that the conference in tsunami-hit Japan might provide a springboard for efforts to tackle natural disasters and costly climate change. The meeting came as a huge tropical cyclone smashed into Vanuatu in the South Pacific, terrifying residents and causing fears Saturday that dozens of people may have died. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu that...
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