Welcome is the third edition of the NAB Secretariat newsletter. This quarterly newsletter is an initiative to share information on the Secretariat’s activities in coordinating climate change and disaster risk reduction related programs and initiative aiming at strengthening and increasing the resilience of our people and communities to the issues affecting them as a result of climate change and natural disasters.

The Effectiveness of Formal and Traditional Learning about Climate and Disaster Resilience in Vanuatu

by Charles Andrew Evan Pierce

Klaemet & Osen Aotluk long Mei 2023
VMGD I pablisem Klaemet mo Osen Aotluk evri manis blong
apdetem pablik mo ol sekta long ol klaemet kondisen, olsem:
● El Niño Southern Oscillation (El Niño-La Niña saekol);
● Renfol;
● Maximum mo minimum atmosferik tempretja;
● Si sefes tempretja;
● Si levol raes;
● Coral blijing;
● Ol taed mo fes blong mun.
 

Welcome to our readers to this fourth edition of the NAB Secretariat newsletter. This quarterly newsletter is an initiative to share information on the Secretariat’s activities in coordinating The United Nations Framework of Conventions for Climate Change (UNFCCC)  and the Conference of the parties COP27 that was hosted in “Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt.

Republic of Vanuatu’s First Biennial Transparency Report (FBTR)

Under the Vanuatu’s First Biennial Transparency Report to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Submitted by: Ministry of Climate Change, Republic of Vanuatu

Executive summary

Climate change is already disproportionally affecting the islands of the Pacific. Although Pacific islanders have done little to contribute to the cause producing less than 0.03% of current global greenhouse gas emissions they are among the first to be exposed and the least able to respond. At the same time, despite efforts to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels and improve energy security, many PACPs remain almost 100% dependent on imported petroleum products for power generation and transportation.

Vanuatu is one of the most vulnerable countries to natural hazards on the planet, (World Bank, 2011). More than three quarters of the population are at risk from not just one, but multiple disaster events, including: tsunamis, volcano eruptions, flooding, cyclones and many more. According to the Pacific Catastrophic Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative (PCRAFI), undertaken by SPC and World Bank in 2010, Vanuatu can lose up to VT4 Billion in one year due to cyclone and earthquakes.

This Project Profile form outlines the Pacific Risk Resilience programme (PRRP) which focuses on strengthening governance mechanisms for Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) at the sub-national and local levels. The goal of the programme is: to strengthen the resilience of Pacific island communities to disasters and climate change related risk.

The ‘protection of low-lying coastal settlement’ scenario targets improving the understanding of the benefits of adaptation toward building preparedness and reducing the impacts of severe events and climate change, as well as determining the cost effectiveness of adaptation options. These are key requirements identified within the Vanuatu National Adaptation Programme for Action (NAPA).

This is the Project Profile form.