APEC Senior Disaster Management Officials’ Forum

APEC to ramp up Climate Change preps

And the recent drought in PNG has been identified as a case study among other disasters affecting other APEC economies.

They include the recent Hurricane Mathew in the US which inflicted damage to the Southeastern coast, and a typhoons in the Western Pacific.

The APEC website states that the Asia-Pacific is on the verge of an increase in poverty due to the increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters fueled by climate change and their ripple effect on water and food supplies.