In addresses to two recent climate change meetings in the Pacific region, Inoke Ratukalou, Acting Director of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) Land Resource Division (LRD), has stressed on the need to protect SIDS’ agriculture sector from the impacts of climate change, and emphasized...
Location (Country): Vanuatu
04.09.2014
SPREP, Germany Sign €5 Million EbA Project
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The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and Germany's Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) signed a five-year, €5 million project ahead of the Third International Conference of Small Island Developing States (SIDS). 'Natural Solutions to Climate...
24.09.2013
World Bank pilots climate insurance
The World Bank’s leading official for the Asia-Pacific region has highlighted the Bank’s support for action on climate change, insurance and disaster risk management, as Pacific leaders meet this week in the Marshall Islands. Axel van Trotsenburg is the new World Bank Regional Vice President...
29.05.2013
SPARCK: Sharing Perceptions of Adaptation, Resilience and Climate Knowledge
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An exciting and innovative new project is underway in Fiji that asks communities, teachers and media to share their thoughts on climate change. The project is also pioneering a ground-breaking mobile survey run on both Digicel (with technology provided by Mobimedia) and Vodafone networks that...
Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific Island Tourism Sectory: Analysing the Policy Environment in Vanuatu
Tourism is a growing economic sector in the South Pacific providing the region with great potential for economic development. Vanuatu and its neighbouring Small Island Developing States and Territories experience a high vulnerability to climate change impacts. The tourism sector in Vanuatu is particularly vulnerable,...
Mangrove EcoSystems for Climate Change Adaptation and Livelihoods (MESCAL) Project
Under the Pacific Mangrove Initiative (PMI), the MESCAL project was developed to address key challenges to mangrove management and conservation. The overall goal of this project is to help Pacific Islanders effectively manage their mangrove and associated coastal ecosystems to build resilience to the potential...
Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC)
Pacific island countries are already experiencing the impacts of climate change. The potential magnitude of the problem threatens the very existence of some Pacific island states, and the achievement of sustainable development and Millennium Development Goals. However, vulnerabilities and risks associated with climate change are...
Pacific Islands Adapting to Climate Change (PACC), Vanuatu
The GEF assistance will be targeted at improving adaptive capacity to address climate change concerns at the national level. It will further co-finance the implementation of pilots that reduce vulnerability to climate impacts which countries themselves have identified on the basis of nationally and scientifically...