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Tuesday 01 Dec 2015 - 12:02 Makkah mean time-19-2-1437
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Paris (IINA) – On the opening day of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21), a new initiative to build climate resilience in the world’s most vulnerable countries was launched by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and 13 agencies of the UN system.
“Three out of four humanitarian disasters are now climate-related,” Ban told delegates attending a high-level meeting on climate resilience in Paris.
The new initiative, called "Anticipate, Absorb, Reshape", will strengthen the ability of countries to anticipate hazards, absorb shocks, and reshape development to reduce climate risks.
It is expected to help address the needs of the nearly 634 million people, or a tenth of the global population who live in at-risk coastal areas just a few meters above existing sea levels, as well as those living in areas at risk of droughts and floods.
Over the next five years, the Initiative is set to mobilize financing and knowledge; create and operationalize partnerships at scale, help coordinate activities to help reach tangible results, catalyze research, and develop new tools.
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