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State Of Emergency Declared as Two Cyclones Hit Vanuatu

  • #Coal
  • #World
  • #Vanuatu
  • #Weather
  • #Tonga
  • #Australia
  • #France
  • #Earthquakes
  • #Fiji
  • #New Zealand
story
MAR 2023
Image copyright: AFP [via Al Jazeera]
story last updated MAR 2023

The Spin

Narrative A

Vanuatu is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Rising sea levels, increasingly powerful cyclones, and associated strong winds, heavy rains, flooding, landslides, and road closures not just cripple its economy; they threaten Vanuatu's children's future. The world's biggest carbon dioxide emitters must take legal responsibility for the changing climate and the consequence of causing extreme weather events.

France 24

Narrative B

Due to its location, cyclones, earthquakes, and seismic activities are a regular phenomenon in Vanuatu — which is why blaming the frequency and intensity of its extreme weather events on global warming is a stretch. Earthquakes and cyclones can’t be stopped, but there are ways of reducing their impact, like investing in disaster preparedness.

World Bank

Metaculus Prediction


Articles on this story

State of emergency declared as two cyclones hit Vanuatu in 24 hrs
Al JazeeraJUL 2023
State of emergency declared in Vanuatu after second cyclone in a week
GuardianJUL 2023