Climate Change Resilience
Representatives from the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) are currently attending the a Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific Islands, hosted by The APEC Climate Center (APCC) in Busan, Korea.

This global symposium, which is part of the follow-up actions from APEC Economic Leaders' meeting in 2013, is co-hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Republic of Korea, the Korea Meteorological Administration and SPREP.

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Image: C.Iacovino/SPREP

The symposium brings together many high ranking officials including Ministers from the governments of Korea, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, and Tuvalu; the leaders of national meteorological agencies for Korea, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Cook Islands, the Marshall Islands; Ambassadors from Korea, Fiji, and Kiribati; and experts in climate change from the Pacific Islands, APCC, and other important regional organisations.

For more information, read the press release on the APCC website.