The Department of Climate Change in its third year of organizing the National event to advocate climate mitigation and adaptation through awareness's program and other activities to our communities, schools, and the general public (Men, Women, Youths, Children and people with special needs) arround the impacts of climate change.

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Vanuatu has been voted to Chair the third Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change and Resilience Building (PACRES) Project Steering Committee, and the man occupying the seat, Mike Sam Waiwai, the Director of the Department of Climate Change, has reiterated the urgent need to scale up action to address the impact of climate change.

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The Department of Climate Change’s Senior Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management Officer, Mrs Pauliane Basil, participated in a two-night series on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Negotiations Skills and Technical Language Training organised jointly by the Women’s Environment and Development Organizations (WEDO) and UNFCCC Secretariat on behalf the Women Delegates Fund (WDF).

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While developing nations could not get developed nations to agree in Bonn, Germany, for a facility for loss and damage to be included in the agenda for the World Climate Summit, COP 27, in November in Egypt, Vanuatu has come off it with a positive outcome as multiple nations have agreed to support Vanuatu’s initiative of getting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

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