World Bank
03 May 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
24 April 2012: The UK Deputy Prime Minister has pledged an additional £25 million to support the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) program to provide clean energy access to the world’s poorest countries.
The United Kingdom has already pledged £50 million to the Scaling-Up Renewable Energy Program in low income countries (SREP) to finance clean energy projects in developing countries. The main goal of the program is to provide access to reliable energy in households and businesses in order to...
03 May 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
27 April 2012: The Climate Investment Fund (CIF) has released a video on the impacts of climate change in Dominica, which shows the impacts of extreme weather events and highlights the urgent need to invest in fostering climate resilience.
The film addresses issues such as rising sea levels, the escalation of tropical storms and hurricanes, and water scarcity, noting that they constitute severe climate change risks to islands in the Caribbean. It indicates that Dominica has adopted sustainable...
25 Apr 2012
This event is being organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, Office of Legal Affairs, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and the World Bank. [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/interactive-discussion-on-%e2%80%9csustainable-fisheries-and-rio20%e2%80%9d/ ]
23 Apr 2012
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spring meetings gather Governors of the Bank and IMF to provide guidance to the management of the Bretton Woods institutions. [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/world-bank-and-imf-spring-meetings/ ]
23 Apr 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
April 2012: The World Bank has reported on an initiative to develop disaster risk assessment tools and plan for future disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Pacific Island countries titled the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative (PCRAFI).
According to the World Bank, PCRAFI carried out in Pacific Island countries and aims to reduce the region’s vulnerability to natural disasters. The programme was designed to improve past and future disaster risk analysis through improved...
