World Bank
07 Jun 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
5 June 2012: The World Bank has released its new Environment Strategy for 2012-2022 with the aim of supporting countries’ efforts to secure a sustainable future through initiatives that are green, clean and resilient.
The Strategy, titled “Toward a Green, Clean, and Resilient World for All,” underlines that “Green” initiatives emphasize the sustainable management of natural resources to improve livelihoods and improve food security, through partnerships with...
25 May 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
22 May 2012: The World Bank will lend US$25 million to support the first phase of the Caribbean Regional Communications Infrastructure Program, a program to provide 27 million people in the region with more comprehensive broadband services.
The project consists of a 10-year information and communications technology plan for the entire Caribbean region. This first phase, however, will solely focus on providing better broadband services to Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the...
18 May 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
16 May 2012: The Pacific Invasives Initiative (PII) has developed an intensive training course to support Pacific countries in managing the threat of invasive species. Countries with invasive species projects under the Global Environment Facility's Pacific Alliance for Sustainability Program (GEF-PAS) are eligible for the training.
The course is taking place from 15-25 May 2012, in Apia, Samoa. It aims to help participants select invasive plants for urgent action, develop and implement...
18 May 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
17 May 2012: The World Bank released its annual book compiling environmental data, which includes information from more than 200 countries relating to agriculture, forests, energy, water, sanitation, and ocean health.
The 2012 Little Green Data Book functions as a compilation of information allowing countries to value and organize their natural capital. The datasets include an Adjusted Net Savings indicator, which calculates savings considering factors such as natural resource depletion and ...
14 May 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
10 May 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has announced that the Rapid Biological Survey project (BIORAP) will be conducted on Savaii, Samoa, during May 2012. BIORAP will focus on surveying the plants, birds and animals of approximately 65,000 hectares of Savaii’s cloud forests.
BIORAP is a joint initiative involving Samoa’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE), SPREP, and New Zealand’s Department of Conservation and Defence...
