The Adaptation Fund Board has approved funding for projects in Eritrea, Ecuador and the Solomon Islands totalling US$19.5 million. The decisions were taken during the Board’s 13th meeting, in Bonn, Germany,on 17-18 March 2011. The Eritrean project will support the development of sub-surface and micro-dams...
This is the story of one Red Cross society’s effort to incorporate climate change into its regular work, and what it found on Pileni island – remote even by the standards of the Solomon Islands. In 2010 the Solomon Islands Red Cross (SIRC) began working with...
16.12.2014
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The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) is implementing an ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) project to rehabilitate and restore forests in Choiseul province, Solomon Islands. The project will also promote soil stability, reduce sediment flow and support water catchment areas. The project's EbA...
09.09.2014
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During the month of August 2014, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the World Bank reported on various climate finance projects. The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) announced a publication on the ADB's climate finance projects in the Asia-Pacific, and the...
04.09.2014
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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
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...
Choiseul is a province of the Solomon Islands with a population of 26,372 people. Sustainable livelihoods in Choiseul Province are closely linked to healthy terrestrial and coastal ecosystems. The majority of inhabitants earn their livelihood from natural resources such as copra, garden crops, seaweed and...
The Solomon Islands National Adapation Programme of Action (NAPA) has established that effective adaptation will require supportive institutions, finance , information and technological support. The need for detailed assessments of climate change impacts and risks for the agriculture sector was highlighted to be critical for...
ADB approved a $24 million grant for the Second Solomon Islands Road Improvement Project to repair the infrastructure damaged by the floods, and provide increased attention to changing climate patterns and the damages these can cause to infrastructure. To make the national network of provincial...
The project will improve access to socioeconomic opportunities and create an enabling business environment by rehabilitating and maintaining land, sea, and air transport infrastructure. Under the project, infrastructure investments will be planned, and designs will incorporate measures for adapting to climate change impacts, including sea...