The Vanuatu goverment is working towards setting up its first Department of Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction.
Vanuatu parliament building in the capital Port Vila. Photo: RNZI/ Walter Zweifel
The Daily Post newspaper said Vanuatu was one of the first countries in the world to set up a Ministry of Climate Change, which is being followed by a Department of Climate Change.
The ministry's Silas Tigona said the new department would mean a potential expansion of the National Disaster Management Office.
He said the department would also provide a pathway for students to proceed to higher levels of training in Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction.