The links between climate change and conflict in the Pacific will be discussed by international experts in Auckland later this week in a first for the region.
Co-hosted by Otago University's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and the Toda Peace Institute the meeting will bring together world leading climate experts and security policy makers with local Pacific researchers.
Otago's Professor Kevin Clements spoke to Jenny Meyer about the workshop which runs from 28-30 of September.
Flooding caused by huge spring tides which Marshall Islands officials have blamed on climate change. Photo: AFP
