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World Fisheries Day is celebrated annually on November 21. The annual event recognises the importance of our fisheries whether it’s coastal or offshore. Additionally, it is a call for restoration ...
Post Date: 23-Nov-2023
Journalists in mainstream media, communications officers, and members of the Media Association of Vanuatu (MAV) have participated in a 2-day workshop aimed at familiarising them with climate change terminology and issues ...
Post Date: 26-Sep-2023
Farmers, foresters, and fishermen from across the country, the government, and stakeholders are convening on Malekula for the third National Week of Agriculture (NWA), which opened yesterday. “Strengthening a sustainable resilient ...
Post Date: 21-Sep-2023
In March, an unprecedented twin category 4 and 5 cyclones and an earthquake devasted Vanuatu again in just 48 hours. Couple of days later, acid rain from volcanic activity left ...
Post Date: 21-Sep-2023
This is an update event news from the recent CCDRR policy awareness with the Shefa PTAC on the 23rd of August
Post Date: 21-Sep-2023
Port Vila, Vanuatu: An inception meeting on the Management and Conservation of Blue Carbon Ecosystems (MACBLUE) project took place earlier last week with Vanuatu government and civil society representatives at ...
Post Date: 14-Jul-2023
On the frontlines of climate change: Financing the largest community-based adaptation project in Vanuatu
‘We women depend on fishing along the coastline to provide fish for our families but most of our catch now are much smaller than the ones we caught here the ...
Post Date: 12-May-2023
Regional Climate Action Networks gather at Reflection and Learning event to look at Collaboration, Influencing and Learning initiatives of Oxfam’s climate change project – PACCCIL
The Pacific Climate Change Collaboration, Influencing and Learning (PACCCIL) Project is holding its Regional Reflection and Learning Event from the 27th February to 3rd March, 2023, at the Heritage Park ...
Post Date: 08-Mar-2023
Vanuatu's Director of Women relishes her role as a technical negotiator on gender and climate at COP27
Apart from the tough negotiations going into its final stages, one of the Pacific negotiators is not only relishing the experience and lessons learnt from ...
Post Date: 07-Feb-2023
Two youth from Vanuatu traveled to Egypt for the COP27 Climate Change Conference to convey their messages to world leaders. Jeffrey Wells from Santo joined other ...
Post Date: 08-Dec-2022
Dr Esline Garabiti, Winners of the 2022 Women's International Network for Disaster Risk Reduction Leadership Awards 2022
What a wonderful celebration of women’s leadership at the 2022 WIN DRR Leadership Awards held this evening at the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction (APMCDRR) here in Brisbane, ...
Post Date: 22-Sep-2022
The Caretaker Minister of Climate Change, Silas Bule, said the newly launched Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Policy (CCDRR) will build Vanuatu’s resilience and support the sustainable development of ...
Post Date: 05-Sep-2022
The Building Resilience and Enhancing Adaptive Capacity in Vanuatu (BRAVE) project was recently kicked off with orientation meetings with the leaders of Penama Provincial Government, 3 Area Councils and their 19 ...
Post Date: 19-Jul-2022
An 8-member Vanuatu delegation has joined other countries in Germany to discuss the earth’s future, which is currently being threatened by climate change. The Bonn Climate Change Conference which started ...
Post Date: 09-Jun-2022
Vanuatu’s Prime Minister (PM), Bob Loughman, has strongly appealed to all negotiators of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) to prioritise action over politics, resilience over economic gain, and justice ...
Post Date: 27-Oct-2021
2 July 2021 - Santo Island, Vanuatu The women of remote Western Santo are demonstrating sustainable livelihoods through an environment-focused locally led gender empowerment program. Now one year and three ...
Post Date: 05-Jul-2021
11 June 2021 - Santo Island, Vanuatu Today marks a historic occasion for one of the most remote and underserved parts of Vanuatu as the two Area Councils of North ...
Post Date: 14-Jun-2021
This week, over 30 Environmental Rangers from across Western Santo met in the high-mountain village of Valapei to refine their skills on using mobile phone apps to map culturally and ...
Post Date: 25-May-2021
By Ann Esswein, May 16, 2020 Almost 16,000 kilometers away from Port Vila lies the Old Land, as one region in the north of Germany is called. One would have to ...
Post Date: 25-May-2021
The Vanuatu Metabolic Analysis Report has been released in January 2021. This analysis of circular economy opportunities for Vanuatu seeks to help reduce the waste flow of imported materials, while ...
Post Date: 27-Jan-2021
The NAB Secretariat is pleased to release the official dates for the NAB Meetings for this year 2021. The Director General for the Ministry of Climate Change Mrs Esline Garaebiti ...
Post Date: 21-Jan-2021
The Ministry of Climate Change in Vanuatu held a two-day workshop from 22 to 23 October this week to gather inputs from stakeholders towards the development of the national quantifiable ...
Post Date: 23-Oct-2020
The National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) continues to distribute dry food rations and local food crops as food relief supplies to the Tropical Cyclone Harold affected islands this week. The ...
Post Date: 02-Jun-2020
The National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) has received donated relief supplies worth of 1.5 million vatu towards TC Harold from the Anglican Church of Melanesia (ACOM). Bishop James Tama, the ...
Post Date: 02-Jun-2020
The National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) has confirmed the repatriation of over 300 Vanuatu citizens stranded overseas due to COVID-19 pandemic will begin soon. The Minister responsible for Meteorology, Geological ...
Post Date: 26-May-2020