Climate Change

Vanuatu 2030 The People's Plan - National Sustainable Development Plan 2016 to 2030

2030 | The People's Plan as our National Sustainable Development Plan for the period 2016 to 2030.

This plan builds on the progress made and lessons learned under the Priorities and Action Agenda, which guided our national development efforts between 2006 and 2015, and the Millennium Development Goals, which also expired in 2015.

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Final report for Review of the Outer Islands Electrification Programmes in FSM

The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) consist of four States: Kosrae, Pohnpei, Chuuk and Yap, each, except for Kosrae that doesn’t have outer islands, have their own Outer Islands’ Solar Electrification Programme. These programmes are developed by the various States and included in the state energy action plans. All the four states have set‐up an energy workgroup in which the state utility plays an important role. There is no national outer island electrification programme in place.

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Project Brief: EU-GIZ ACSE: Federated States of Micronesia: Improving the regulatory and financial environment to enhance investments in small-scale renewable energy technologies

Project Summary

Location: States of Pohnpei, Kosrae, Chuuk and Yap
Objective: Enhancing investments in small-scale renewable energy in FSM through providing legislation to guide the connection of renewable energy systems to the main power grid and access to loans.
Implementing Agency: Pacific Community (SPC)
Budget: € 325,000
Duration: 2017—2018

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Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2018 from World Bank Indicators

The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2018 is a visual guide to the trends, challenges and measurement issues related to each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The Atlas features maps and data visualizations, primarily drawn from World Development Indicators (WDI) - the World Bank’s compilation of internationally comparable statistics about global development and the quality of people’s lives.

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ADB: Strategy 2030

Strategy 2030 sets the course for ADB’s efforts to respond effectively to the Asia and Pacific region’s changing needs.

Asia and the Pacific has made great strides in poverty reduction and economic growth in the past 50 years. ADB has been a key partner in the significant transformation of the region and is committed to continue serving the region in the next phase of its development.

Under Strategy 2030, ADB will expand its vision to achieve a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty.

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Living with Change (LivC): An Integrated National Strategy for Enhancing the Resilience of Tokelau to Climate Change and Related Hazards, 2017-2030

This implementation Plan written by the Government of Tokelau provides an overview of how implementation of LivC will occur.

LivC has three inter-related strategic Climate Resilient Investment Pathways (CRIPs):

1. Mitigation: Decarbonisation Development;

2. Adaptation: Strengthened Integrated Risk Reduction and Adaptation to enhance climate change and disaster resilience and

3. Human Development: Capacity Building, Education, Training, Public Awareness & Outreach,

The report highlights:

- Implementation Plan 2017 -2022

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Electricity and Water Regulation in Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, Palau

The electricity sector highlights how the sector is organized, recent performance trends, and a desk assessment of regulatory substance and governance. This assessment will be supplemented through field work. The areas where further information is needed from field interviews are highlighted in this case study.

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Progress report on the Framework for Action on Energy Security in the Pacific 2010–2020 implementation plan for the period April 2011 to December 2015

This report is an effort to capture what has been carried out under the ‘Implementation Plan of the Framework for Action on Energy Security in the Pacific 2011–2015’. It is an attempt to improve the accountability and transparency of the work of the implementation partners, in highlighting what has been carried out, what were their outputs and what impacts they made.

Keywords - FAESP implementation plan progress report 2015

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