Vanuatu has been voted to Chair the third Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change and Resilience Building (PACRES) Project Steering Committee, and the man occupying the seat, Mike Sam Waiwai, the Director of the Department of Climate Change, has reiterated the urgent need to scale up action to address the impact of climate change.
The Department of Climate Change’s Senior Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management Officer, Mrs Pauliane Basil, participated in a two-night series on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Negotiations Skills and Technical Language Training organised jointly by the Women’s Environment and Development Organizations (WEDO) and UNFCCC Secretariat on behalf the Women Delegates Fund (WDF).
While developing nations could not get developed nations to agree in Bonn, Germany, for a facility for loss and damage to be included in the agenda for the World Climate Summit, COP 27, in November in Egypt, Vanuatu has come off it with a positive outcome as multiple nations have agreed to support Vanuatu’s initiative of getting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
The Vanuatu’s Parliament has declared a climate emergency, endorsed unanimously by all Members of the Parliament in the parliament chamber on Friday 27th of May 2022.
The Ministry of Climate Change Adaptation (MoCCA) through Vanuatu’s National Designated Authority (NDA) is pleased to announce two significant projects on Climate Change Adaptation, the Climate Change in the Coastal Zone in Vanuatu (VCAP 2) and Vanuatu Climate Change Resilience Project (VCCRP).