The Acting Director of the Department of Climate Change, Nelson Kalo, represented the Ministry of Climate Change Adaptation (MoCCA) and Vanuatu this week in Fiji as Chair of the Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS) to deliver the welcome address at the Regional Programmatic Approach, a consultation workshop on Climate Finance co-hosted by the Governments of Cook Islands and Palau.

The National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) has ensured that dry rations for people affected by volcanic ash reaches Tanna in good time. The dry ration for Tanna ashfall response reached the island on February 22, 2024.

The Minister of Climate Change and Environmental Protection, Hon. Ralph Regenvanu, led a delegation to Launalang area in the northern part of Tanna island February 28, 2024, with Member of Parliament for Tanna, Andrew Napuat, to officially launch the Nusumetu and Tipinime Management Plan.

Two contracts were signed on Friday February 2, 2024 by the Hon. Minister of Climate Change, Ralph Regenvanu on behalf of the Ministry of Climate Change (the Purchaser), with Campbell Scientific Australia, the Supplier for delivery and installation of six Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) and six Automatic River Gauges (ARG) on seven islands of Vanuatu.

The National Wastewater Taskforce, established under the Pollution (Control) Act No. 10 of 2013, held its first meeting for 2024 on Wednesday (January 31) this week.

World Wetlands Day is celebrated every year on February 2. This day marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea.