 Vanuatu is a small island-developing state within the Pacific region. We're one of the most vulnerable countries in the world, especially when it comes to climate and disaster risks. We're situated in the Pacific Rim of Fire as well as within the Pacific Cyclonic Belt, which makes us one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. In Vanuatu we can see mostly in terms of severity of tropical cyclone events. We have more and more tropical cyclone events, category 5, which is not so regular in the past, but now we can see them more often. People from all islands in Vanuatu still retain very close relationships to the land, first and foremost because the cultural heritage relies a lot on the resources that are available, not only on the land but also on the sea. In most places it's the only way of income. The country usually experiences cyclones and then we have volcanic eruptions. So we have flooding in fierce low-lying areas or communities that are based in low-lying areas when there's heavy rainfalls and sometimes these communities have to shift away from where they're living to move into higher ground. You're looking at issues related to food security, water security, even cultural security, which is very much impacted by those particular climate impacts. We have to consider the difference in gender and invulnerability of people, people with disability in terms of human mobility. For Vanuatu, human mobility or human displacement is bound to happen yet in the future, considering the magnitude and also very aggressive wetter patterns that we have now in Vanuatu in the Pacific. The Iowa Mission in Vanuatu supported the Ministry of Climate Change to develop its first ever national displacement policies, then supported the government to realize that displacement is an issue. It's very critical for Vanuatu to have a displacement policy in place. Given the scientific projections, we'll have climatic impacts that will very much intensify and worsen. You have cyclones every year, so people will have to be displaced. You need proper evacuation centres to be set up. Or if you're looking at more long-term, durable solutions, those will have to come to play. But I think in the future, now that we have a policy in place, a displacement policy, the government will look forward to have support in the future in terms of finance to implement that plan better. So I think it's about time that the government preps itself and looks to its strengths in the islands. People who have been resilient throughout these disasters over generations and pick out the useful aspects of traditional knowledge that we can use, utilize during disasters. We preach resilience to our people, but we will need support. There has to have specific financing for loss and damage to help people from island nations to recover. It's important to recognise the needs of small island states and particularly for Vanuatu, a chain of a group of little islands.