In small island states, a mixed picture of climate resilience funding

At last September’s U.N. Conference on Small Island Developing States in Apia, Samoa, theWorld Bank announced that it would help small, disaster-prone countries to improve their adaptive capacity to climate change through an effort called the Small Island States Resilience Initiative — a response to ever-louder calls from leaders of island states for more assistance with boosting their disaster resilience. From $145 million a year, World Bank support for climate-resilient development for these small island states was increased to $190 million annually.

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Source: devex