Managing Coastal Aquifers in Selected Pacific Small Island Developing States Project (MCAP) Groundwater investigation in Nui, Tuvalu

1.1 Project background

Environmental and Social Impact Assessment and Management Plan

The Local Climate Adaptive Living (LoCAL) Facility of the UN Capital Development (UNCDF) was designed to promote climate change-resilient communitoes and local economies by establishing a stardard, internationally recognized country-based mechanism to channel climate finance to local government authorities in Least Developing Countries (LCDs) including Tuvalu. Below are the LoCAL-Environmental and Social Safeguard (ESS) documents that has been published to the public, mainly affected beneficiaries. If you wish to know more about the project ESS visit the following sites 

Climate Change Resilience Act

An act to build an effective Climate Change Response and ensure Long-Term, just transition to a Climate Resilient and Lower Carbon Economy and Society and Related Matters.

Video of Te Lafiga o Tuvalu - Tuvalu's Long Term Adaptation Plan (2022) 

Updated Nationally Determine Contribution

The Government of Tuvalu developed its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC)
and submitted it to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
in 2015 and ratified the Paris Agreement on 22 April 2016. When the Paris Agreement came
into force on 04 November 2016, Tuvalu’s INDC submitted in 2015 automatically became
Tuvalu’s First NDC.

Resilience Recovery Rapid Readiness Support in Tuvalu

Climate change is a fundamental cross-cutting issue that undermines Tuvalu socio-economic development efforts. Tuvalu’s climate change priorities are articulated in the recently approved Te Kete Sustainable Development Strategy 2021-2030, national climate change policy, sectoral policies as well as in legislation such as the Tuvalu Climate Change and Disaster Survival Fund Act and Regulations. As indicated in the NDC, Tuvalu commits to a reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases from electricity by 100% by 2025.

Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change and Resilience Building

Pacific Adaptation 1 to Climate
Change and Resilience Building (PACRES) aims to ensure better regional and national
adaptation and mitigation responses to climate change challenges facing Pacific ACP countries.
It is being implemented by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
(SPREP), the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, the Pacific Community and the
University of the South Pacific.
PACRES is supporting regional and national climate change portals to increase access to

Climate Informationa and Early Warning System Project

The overall goal of the Programme is to increase the resilience of populations in the Cook
Islands, Niue, Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) and Tuvalu to climate change
and climate-related hazards, through the delivery of timely, accurate and actionable climate and
ocean information and early warnings to facilitate climate-resilient policy, planning,
preparedness and response actions.
The Programme will establish integrated climate and ocean information services and multihazard

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