Understanding the relationship between inequality and climate change risk is increasingly recognized as being central to informing effective adaptation action. In this research, negative outcomes of inequality associated with factors contributing to climate change vulnerability are traced in case studies in two high-risk Pacific nations;...
01.08.2017
The Mbuke islanders have silently suffered the long term effects of climate change, caused by global warming, for over five decades now. With a population of 420, the people have seen and experienced the effects of climate change since the 70s, affecting their way of...
26.10.2015
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing a $24.25 million grant to help Papua New Guinea (PNG) build up its resilience and responsiveness to the impacts of climate change. The project grant, from ADB’s Strategic Climate Fund, will help PNG’s Strategic Program for Climate Resilience...
The Kivori community is a pilot site for the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) Project, nationally implemented by the Department of Agriculture and Livestock of PNG, with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as its implementing agency in partnership with the Secretariat of the...
10.02.2014
The inception meeting for a three-year multi-million dollar climate resilience project was held at the headquarters of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) in Apia, Samoa this week, bringing together donors, partners and Pacific countries to strengthen planning as the project...
The GEF assistance will be targeted at improving adaptive capacity to address climate change concerns at the national level, and at co-financing the implementation of pilots that reduce vulnerability to climate impacts which countries themselves have identified on the basis of nationally and scientifically endorsed...