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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
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
The Ministry of Climate Change Adaptation (MoCCA) through Vanuatu’s National Designated Authority (NDA) has announced two significant projects on Climate Change Adaptation, the Climate Change in the Coastal Zone in ...
Post Date: 19-May-2022
 The Vanuatu Prime Minister, Honourable Bob Loughman Weibur, has made an important speech in giving remarks to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). One of his remarks, "Most Importanly an ...
Post Date: 13-Mar-2022
Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) form the core of the Paris Agreement and provide the framework for countries climate policies. From 24 to 26 February, the Regional Pacific NDC ...
Post Date: 08-Mar-2022
Representatives from the Vanuatu government, the business sector and the NGO community were among the participants at a VIP-led UK/Pacific climate change dialogue, held on Wednesday, February 23 2022. Hosted by ...
Post Date: 25-Feb-2022
The Regional Pacific NDC Hub, through the Pacific Community (SPC), supported the Department of Climate Change, Ministry of Climate Change (Republic of Vanuatu) with a thorough preparatory review of the ...
Post Date: 15-Feb-2022
DECEMBER 14, 2021 BY LEANNEM 01 December 2021 - Vanuatu, a Pacific country identified as the highest disaster risk of countries in the world, has commended the availability and accessibility of NextGen ...
Post Date: 08-Feb-2022
A bilateral Agreement on climate change cooperation was signed on November 11, 2021 between Vanuatu and Switzerland on the side of the COP26 climate conference. The signing was done virtually ...
Post Date: 22-Dec-2021
The COP26 Vanuatu Delegates Report Back Program 2021, held on Friday 12th November 2021 at the Grand Hotel. The Government of Vanuatu through the Ministry of Climate Change has organised and ...
Post Date: 22-Nov-2021
  Vanuatu’s Prime Minister (PM), Bob Loughman, has strongly appealed to all negotiators of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) to prioritise action over politics, resilience over economic gain, and justice ...
Post Date: 27-Oct-2021
Vanuatu now has a plan to guide the Ministry of Health (MoH) to prepare, respond and recover from natural disasters such as cyclones, volcanoes earthquakes and climate change impacts. The National ...
Post Date: 14-Jul-2021
To Vanuatu Leaders We, the civil society of Vanuatu, would like to applaud you and other Pacific Leaders for your tireless efforts to address the devastating impacts of climate change on ...
Post Date: 05-Jul-2021
2 July 2021 - Santo Island, Vanuatu The women of remote Western Santo are demonstrating sustainable livelihoods through an environment-focused locally led gender empowerment program.  Now one year and three ...
Post Date: 05-Jul-2021
The Director General of the Ministry of Climate Change, Ms Esline Garaebiti, the New Zealand High Commissioner to Vanuatu Jonathan Schwass, and Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), Country Representative for ...
Post Date: 21-Jun-2021
11 June 2021 - Santo Island, Vanuatu Today marks a historic occasion for one of the most remote and underserved parts of Vanuatu as the two Area Councils of North ...
Post Date: 14-Jun-2021
This week, over 30 Environmental Rangers from across Western Santo met in the high-mountain village of Valapei to refine their skills on using mobile phone apps to map culturally and ...
Post Date: 25-May-2021
By Ann Esswein, May 16, 2020 Almost 16,000 kilometers away from Port Vila lies the Old Land, as one region in the north of Germany is called. One would have to ...
Post Date: 25-May-2021