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SYDNEY (Reuters) Climate change and efforts to keep up with advances in artificial intelligence top the agenda for a Commonwealth meeting set for the small Pacific Islands nation of Samoa in October, the groupings secretary general said...
A voluntary club of 56 nations headed by King Charles, the Commonwealth evolved out of the British empire to cover 2.5 billion people, with 11 Pacific nations among its members...
This is not a threat about extinction tomorrow, many of them are thinking, it is extinction today, Patricia Scotland said of the climate change risks that make small Pacific nations particularly vulnerable...
Samoa will be the first Pacific small island state to host the annual Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, putting the spotlight on climate change...
The grouping wanted to put climate finance advisers in member nations to boost fund-raising efforts to tackle the fallout of climate change, Scotland said.. Other topics for discussion are artificial intelligence and digitalisation of the global economy...
