The Vanuatu National Environment Policy and Implementation Plan 2016–2030 (NEPIP) is an overarching policy for the sustainable conservation, development, and management of the environment of Vanuatu. The NEPIP aims to provide for the co-ordination of related activities, promote the environmentally sound and safe management and conservation of the natural resources and environment of Vanuatu, and outline the operational matters...
The national sustainable development goals and policy objectives outlined in Vanuatu 2030: The People's Plan (National Sustainable Development Plan 2016 to 2030) are the overarching guide for government planning over the next 15 years. Together they articulate a path for Vanuatu to emerge as a much stronger nation, renewing our traditions and...
The Updated Vanuatu National Energy Road Map 2016-2030 is the key source of current information on Vanuatu’s energy sector policies, plans, and priorities in the future.
Vanuatu’s National Energy Road Map (NERM) was first endorsed in 2013. The overall vision of the 2013 version of the National Energy Road Map...
Fiji’s current Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) is specific to the energy sector both in terms of a GHG (greenhouse gas) baseline, with 2013 as the reference year, and in terms of potential mitigation actions. The overall mitigation target in the NDC is to reduce CO2 emissions by 30% from a BAU (Business...
Fiji’s National Development Plan (NDP), with the vision of “Transforming Fiji”, maps out the way forward for Fiji and all Fijians to realise our full potential as a nation. For the first time, Fiji has both a 20-Year Development Plan (2017-2036) and a comprehensive 5-Year Development Plan (2017-2021). These plans...
Fiji faces significant development challenges, and the government has set ambitious development objectives to address them. Natural hazards and climate change, however, represent a major obstacle to the achievement of these objectives. Tropical cyclones have already shown they can affect GDP growth in a significant manner. In the future, the cost...
A Green Growth Framework For Fiji: Restoring the balance in development that is sustainable for our future is a tool to accelerate integrated and inclusive sustainable development which will inspire action at all levels, to strengthen environmental resilience, drive social improvement and reduce poverty, enhance economic growth and also build capacity to...
The Kiribati 20-Year Vision 2016-2036 (KV20) is a long-term development blueprint for Kiribati. It covers the period 2016 to 2036. It is motivated by a collective aspiration for a better society by the year 2036. The vision of the KV20 is for Kiribati to become a wealthy, healthy and peaceful...
Kiribati is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and disasters. Its vulnerability is principally due to geological and physical features as well as inherent socio-economic characteristics. Climate change and disasters can have serious adverse impacts on the environment, the people of Kiribati and their livelihoods.
Kiribati Integrated Energy Roadmap: 2017-2025 (KIER) comprises a policy framework with specific targets and a set of priority actions, with associated cost estimates and specific timelines. The KIER presents a packaged plan of institutional, policy, regulatory, technical, financial and capacity-building actions that, collectively, will enable the Government of Kiribati to achieve its energy objectives, in...