World Bank
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...
14 May 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
8 May 2012: The World Bank has presented the results of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF), a programme designed to promote rapid access to emergency financing in cases of severe weather-based disasters in the Caribbean.
CCRIF provides Caribbean countries with hurricane and earthquake insurance for a cost that is 45-50% lower than that provided by insurance markets. This price difference results from the CCRIF agenda of aggregating individual country risk, and then...
07 May 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
4 May 2012: The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) held meetings of the Pilot Program on Climate Resilience (PPCR) Sub-Committee, the Scaling Up Renewable Energy Program (SREP) Sub-Committee, the Strategic Climate Fund (SCF) Trust Fund Committee, the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) Trust Fund Committee, and the Forest Investment Program (FIP) sub-Committee, and approved new projects on climate resilience, renewable energy and forests.
The meetings took place from 30 April-4 May 2012, in Washington DC,...
