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On the frontlines of climate change: Financing the largest community-based adaptation project in Vanuatu
‘We women depend on fishing along the coastline to provide fish for our families but most of our catch now are much smaller than the ones we caught here the ...
Post Date: 12-May-2023
UN Climate Change News, 20 February 2023 - Four developing countries - Burundi, Pakistan, Vanuatu and Mexico are making considerable efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, demonstrating that effective climate action ...
Post Date: 16-Apr-2023
The ICJ accepts requests for an advisory opinion from a limited number of entities specifically authorised to do so under the Charter of the United Nations. This includes the UN ...
Post Date: 30-Mar-2023
Regional Climate Action Networks gather at Reflection and Learning event to look at Collaboration, Influencing and Learning initiatives of Oxfam’s climate change project – PACCCIL
The Pacific Climate Change Collaboration, Influencing and Learning (PACCCIL) Project is holding its Regional Reflection and Learning Event from the 27th February to 3rd March, 2023, at the Heritage Park ...
Post Date: 08-Mar-2023
Traditional Knowledge workshop on weather, climate and oceans helps to prepare Vanuatu for extreme weather events
Officers working in the traditional knowledge component of a project to make ">climate information better, relevant, ...
Post Date: 07-Feb-2023
Vanuatu's Director of Women relishes her role as a technical negotiator on gender and climate at COP27
Apart from the tough negotiations going into its final stages, one of the Pacific negotiators is not only relishing the experience and lessons learnt from ...
Post Date: 07-Feb-2023
Two youth from Vanuatu traveled to Egypt for the COP27 Climate Change Conference to convey their messages to world leaders. Jeffrey Wells from Santo joined other ...
Post Date: 08-Dec-2022
The Ministry of Climate Change (MoCC) has revealed the first group who will be attending the preparatory meetings of the Vanuatu delegation to the Twenty Seventh Conference of the ...
Post Date: 07-Dec-2022
Vanuatu is taking global warming seriously as it pledges carbon net zero emissions by 2050 in its new strategy plan, despite doing the least to contribute to global ...
Post Date: 07-Dec-2022
80% of Vanuatu’s population depends entirely on agriculture for daily subsistence and well-being. The sector needs to be resilient to keep meeting people’s needs. The Director ...
Post Date: 07-Dec-2022
La Niña returns What does this mean for Vanuatu? Welcome to Vanuatu Climate Watch, a new climate information update from VanKIRAP! VanKIRAP (Vanuatu Klaemet Infomesen blong ...
Post Date: 29-Sep-2022
Dr Esline Garabiti, Winners of the 2022 Women's International Network for Disaster Risk Reduction Leadership Awards 2022
What a wonderful celebration of women’s leadership at the 2022 WIN DRR Leadership Awards held this evening at the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction (APMCDRR) here in Brisbane, ...
Post Date: 22-Sep-2022
The Caretaker Minister of Climate Change, Silas Bule, said the newly launched Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Policy (CCDRR) will build Vanuatu’s resilience and support the sustainable development of ...
Post Date: 05-Sep-2022
By Michael Taylor, Thomson Reuters Foundation Aug 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Pacific island state Vanuatu has submitted a “groundbreaking” update to its commitments under the Paris climate accord ...
Post Date: 16-Aug-2022
Minister of Climate Change, Silas Bule, has described Vanuatu’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) as one of the most ambitious in the world. NDCs are the heart of the Paris Agreement, as ...
Post Date: 15-Aug-2022
The 51st Pacific Islands Forum Leaders meeting was held in Fiji from 11 to 14 July 2022, and unanimously endorsed Vanuatu’s initiative to secure an Advisory Opinion from the International ...
Post Date: 10-Aug-2022
The Port Vila Urban Greening Master Plan project supported by PACRES under the Department of Climate Change -DoCC and implemented by SPREP in partnership with the Vanuatu Government conducted a ...
Post Date: 10-Aug-2022
The University of the South Pacific (USP) through its Pacific Technical and Further Education (Pacific TAFE)’s ECCE program helped upskill 189 Early Childhood Teachers between 2020 to 2021. Thirty-one (31) ...
Post Date: 21-Jul-2022
The NAB Secretariat is organizing a Portal Training and awareness workshop today Thursday 21st July, at the Grand Hotel. The objective of the training is to get governmental services ITs, PRO and ...
Post Date: 21-Jul-2022
Pacific youth need action on climate change, Vanuatu PM says, as leaders seek to appeal to world's highest court
Vanuatu's Prime Minister has criticised the slow pace of international negotiations to reduce carbon emissions as "totally out of step" with the threat facing Pacific Island nation. Bob Loughman is ...
Post Date: 21-Jul-2022
The Building Resilience and Enhancing Adaptive Capacity in Vanuatu (BRAVE) project was recently kicked off with orientation meetings with the leaders of Penama Provincial Government, 3 Area Councils and their 19 ...
Post Date: 19-Jul-2022
The Secretariat to the National Advisory Board on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction (NAB) in Vanuatu successfully conducted a Portal Training today at the Melanesian Hotel in Port Vila. ...
Post Date: 19-Jul-2022
From June 27 to July 1, a high-level delegation from Vanuatu made waves at the 2nd United Nations Oceans Conference held in Lisbon, Portugal. The ocean is critical for ...
Post Date: 14-Jul-2022
An 8-member Vanuatu delegation has joined other countries in Germany to discuss the earth’s future, which is currently being threatened by climate change. The Bonn Climate Change Conference which started ...
Post Date: 09-Jun-2022
32nd Board meeting held in Antigua and Barbuda sees adoption of private sector strategy, enhanced simplified approval process and GCF Programming Dialogue for ...
Post Date: 24-May-2022