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The United Nations Development Agency's head, Helen Clark, has called for climate change to be put at the very centre of international development thinking.

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Tue, 16 Feb 2010

SYDNEY, Australia --- The United Nations Development Agency's head, Helen Clark, has called for climate change to be put at the very centre of international development thinking. The call came in Ms Clark's only major speech during her 2-day visit to Australia to the Lowy Institute in Sydney. Ms Clark set out a 4-point strategy for moving the development agenda forward. She called for a renewed focus on meeting the millennium goals and for climate change to be placed at the very centre of development thinking and strategies, with particular attention to vulnerable groups. “For a number of Pacific Island nations and communities, climate change is not just an abstract issue, not just an environmental or an economic issue, it is about their very survival,” she said. Ms Clark says developing countries need support to recover from crises and disasters and to improve their governance, and that more use should be made of strong and innovative aid partnerships.

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