Vanuatu

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 of some of our degraded ecosystems that support important fisheries. One of which is seagrass.

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 for more effective reporting.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) are launching a new partnership today to support four countries - Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu - to increase their resilience to climate change.

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 the Melanesian Hotel in Port Vila, Vanuatu.

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, Australia!