SPC Highlights Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture

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...

04.09.2014

SPREP, Germany Sign €5 Million EbA Project

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...

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...