As a component of “Building the Resilience of Communities and their Ecosystems to the impactsof Climate Change in the Pacific”, a draft for the Resource Management Plan has been prepared and is under final revision. The plan will address key issues and put in place...
Location (Country): Marshall Islands
Adapting to Variability Before Change, An analysis of preexisting adaptation strategies for climate variability through a socioecological resilience framework: The Case of the Republic of the Marshall Islands
Instead of identifying climate change adaptation strategies that will best fortify against projected impacts, this paper suggests that adapting to climate variability can be used as a strategy to deal with the threat of climate change. Adjustment to climate variability is a longstanding practice for the human species....
20.05.2015
‘Nowhere to move’: Marshall Islands adapts amid climate change threat
The Majuro Atoll is a thin crescent of sand, sitting just above the waterline, halfway between Hawaii and Australia. With most of Majuro less than 500 feet across, there’s only room for one street, on which shared taxis drive back and forth. On one side...
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...
Local-Scale Vulnerability Assessment – Atoll Island Countries
The report describes a project undertaken in two Pacific atoll countries, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and Tuvalu. The key project objectives were: (1) build research skills in atoll countries to undertake rapid vulnerability assessments at the local scale; (2) identify local scale variances...
Pacific Islands Adapting to Climate Change (PACC), Marshall Islands
The GEF assistance will be targeted at improving adaptive capacity to address climate change concerns at the national level. It will also, together with individual country, co-finance the implementation of pilot projects that reduce vulnerability to climate impacts which countries themselves have identified on the basis...