Van-KIRAP is working with Vanuatu to upgrade Vanuatu’s designs to international climate-adjusted standards and build more climate-resilient infrastructure
Category: Vanuatu
Tree planting on Tagabe riverbanks increasing Vanuatu’s climate change resilience
Tree planting on the Tagabe riverbanks is reducing vulnerability and increasing resilience to climate change in Vanuatu
Disaster-hit Vanuatu hopes for ‘historic’ UN climate change resolution
Vanuatu hopes for a ‘historic’ UN climate change resolution that would help establish important legal context “for many of us, who are facing the devastation caused by climate change”
Vanuatu’s existential climate threat: “Losing my country is not an option”
In the wake of the latest warning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Pacific island nation renews calls for a global phaseout of fossil fuels
Vote on ICJ resolution expected next month
Vote on the ICJ resolution to protect the rights of present and future generations against the adverse effects of climate change is expected next month at the UNGA
Malekula’s Marine Turtle Community Conservation
Malekula’s Marine Turtle Community are working together to develop a sea turtle management plan which promotes the way we are protecting our environment with our custom and culture
Traditional knowledge must be recognised and mainstreamed into national policies, says Minister Regenvanu
For any future responses and management to our environment and climate change, traditional knowledge will continue to play a key role and there is no way we can discount it, says Minister Regenvanu
Parties predicting a failure of COP27 without a loss and damage finance facility
The creation of Loss and Damage finance facility will determine the success or failure of collective leadership here at COP27, says Vanuatu’s Climate Change and Environment Minister
Vanuatu’s director of women relishes her role as a technical co-ordinator for negotiators on gender and climate change for PSIDS
Negotiators on gender and climate change are glad PSIDS through G77 and AOSIS support the call for a simplified climate financing mechanism available for women, local and indigenous communities
Vanuatu’s golden yam, a successful climate resilient foot crop developed over 15 years
Vanuatu’s climate-resilient Golden Yam can be used as a source of food security and livelihood for people in Vanuatu, says director of the country’s department of agriculture