WASHINGTON, December 19, 2023 –The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a US$20 million grant to support the Government of Solomon Islands in improving financial management, strengthen...
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Pacific Climate Change Centre enhances research and access to climate information for Solomon Islands
The Pacific Climate Change Centre (PCCC) has provided the Solomon Islands Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Meteorology (MECDM) with specialised technical equipment...
Pacific Climate Change Centre and Solomon Islands National University to Forge New Partnership for Locally Driven Climate Change Action
Climate Change Resilience The forging of a new partnership to address climate change in the Solomon Islands is being discussed between the Pacific Climate Change Centre (PCCC) hosted at the...
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Pacific Least Developed Countries need to address climate and development challenges together
The climate crisis and development challenges pose a mutually reinforcing threat to the growth prospects of Pacific Island Least Developed Countries and need to be addressed together. This was a key...
Solomon Islands: Disaster Management Reference Handbook, October 2023
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Solomon Islands is exposed to a range of natural hazards, including earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanos, tropical storms, and flooding. Natural disasters that particularly affected the...
Community Driven Development, Climate Change, and Resiliency: Lessons from Solomon Islands
Bobby Anderson Between 2009 and 2022, the Rural Development Program (RDP) built 663 small scale infrastructure projects chosen by communities across Solomon Islands. As RDP closed, the author visited...
Pacific Climate Change Centre Strengthens Capacity Of Solomon Islands On Knowledge Brokerage
8 August 2023, Honiara Solomon Islands – Solomon Islands has applauded the successful conclusion of a two-day Knowledge Brokerage workshop attended by national stakeholders in Honiara from 10-11...
Major community climate adaptation project launches in Solomon Islands
The locally led project will directly reach a quarter of the country’s population, helping to build the resilience of children and communities in the face of the climate crisis. Honiara, 14 July...
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Government builds on climate change focus in Pacific
HON CARMEL SEPULONI HON JAMES SHAW Boost in climate finance support to help develop and improve communities’ climate adaptation plans and projects 80 percent of Solomon Islands population live in...
Local Responses to Climate Change and Disaster-Related Migration in Solomon Islands
1. Introduction Climate-related displacement is one of the world’s biggest humanitarian and sustainable development challenges. For decades, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has...
Local Insights into Social Resilience and Climate Change in Solomon Islands
1. Introduction This research paper focuses on building the social resilience of vulnerable communities to climate change in Solomon Islands. Grounded in extensive field work incorporating...
World Bank Bolsters Community Participation in Climate-Resilient Rural Projects in Solomon Islands
New US$24 million project will strengthen government delivery of essential infrastructure and services for communities and support economic development across all nine provinces WASHINGTON, June 14,...
Key progress achieved on climate related mobility during two-day national consultation
Honiara – Over 40 representatives from government, civil society and the private sector gathered virtually on 9 and 10 March for a two-day national consultation on migration, displacement and planned...
Climate Risk Country Profile - Solomon Islands
KEY MESSAGES • The Solomon Islands are warming and are expected to continue to experience warming trends throughout the 21st century. Future rates of warming are clouded by current models’ inability...
Risk profile: Sudden-Onset Hazards and the Risk of Future Displacement in Solomon Islands
Summary Disaster displacement is one of the world's biggest humanitarian and sustainable development challenges, and climate change and urbanisation serve to aggravate the phenomenon. IDMC has built...
Early Action Rainfall Workshop Held In Solomon Islands
15 September 2020, Honiara, Solomon Islands – A sub-national workshop to raise awareness and train key sub-national stakeholders to understand and correctly interpret sub-seasonal to monthly to...
Health and climate change country profile 2019: Solomon Islands
Overview This WHO UNFCCC health and climate change country profile for Solomon Islands provides a summary of available evidence on climate hazards, health vulnerabilities, health impacts and progress...
Adapting Towards Resilience: Water and Sanitation is Everybody’s Business
Honiara, Solomon Islands - Water and sanitation is everybody’s business” from “ridge to reef” and “from community to cabinet.” Under Secretary to the Ministry of Mines, Energy and Rural...
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Pacific met services play key role in informing health, food and water security, tourism, energy and disaster risk reduction
Warmer temperatures and increased rainfall can pose threats to our livelihoods and health by impacting the quality of water we drink, the food we consume, and the weather we experience. But there are...
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Effects of Climate Change on 1.5° Temperature Rise Relevant to the Pacific Islands
Patrick Pringle, Climate Analytics, Samoa EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report synthesizes the emerging evidence of climate impacts at different temperature thresholds for Pacific islands. All evidence...