Inevitably, climate change has been blamed for Vanuatu's worst natural disaster in living memory. Cyclone Pam has killed at least 11 people and 15,000 homes are thought to be uninhabitable across the country's 65 islands in the South Pacific. Winds reached almost 300 kilometres per hour, and a hospital and medical repository have both reportedly lost their roofs. The cyclone hit while Vanuatu's president, Baldwin Lonsdale, was in Japan with other world leaders for the UN's third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction. Speaking in Japan, Lonsdale linked cyclone Pam - and other recent cyclones - to climate change.
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