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House Natural Resources Committee Issues Testimony From U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Planning & Natural Resources Targeted News Service Jean-Pierre L. Oriol, commissioner of the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Planning and Natural Resources, as part of a remote hearing entitled Discussion on the Insular Area Climate Change Act on March 4, 2021: Thank you Representative Grijalva for the opportunity to testify in support of the proposed Insular Areas Climate Change Act on behalf of the US Virgin Islands. Whether it is the 2015 federally-declared disaster for drought in the US Caribbean, the impact of Hurricanes Irma and Maria to Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands in 2017, and Tropical Cyclone Gita in ....
Braden Fastier/Stuff Then Associate Minister of Transport Julie Anne Genter tours the slip sites on Takaka Hill in November 2019. The hill section of the highway – which is the only road between Riwaka and Golden Bay – was significantly damaged by ex-Tropical Cyclone Gita in February 2018 and has been undergoing repairs since. However, Speight said the job had been “a lot more challenging than it was anticipated in the beginning”. Decomposed rock and weak soil made it harder to reach a solid foundation to build up the retaining walls in the narrow and steep gullies. BRADEN FASTIER /STUFF Contractors have been working to repair the Takaka Hill road since ex-Tropical Cyclone Gita hit the region in February 2018. Video first published in December 2019. ....
GPS Nuku’alofa celebrated opening of 12 renovated classrooms Format 10th February, 2021 Students of Nuku’alofa Government Primary School celebrated the opening of three renovated classroom buildings funded by the Pacific Resilience Program (PREP), a project managed under the Ministry of MEIDECC (Meteorology, Energy, Information, Disaster Management, Environment, Climate Change and Communications). The buildings have 12 classrooms which will provide over 350 students with a more comfortable learning environment. Mrs Natalia Lātū said, “Investing in quality education through climate resilient classrooms is important, not only from a safety perspective but also from an economic and long term financial perspective.” She noted that GPS Nuku’alofa is one of the five schools renovated under the PREP where the “substructure was sufficiently robust, to allow the existing buildings to be retrofitted and structurally strengthened”. ....
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Follow #ThinkLandscape on Twitter and check out our updates Tonga: Capacity Building for Resilient Development: Application of Safeguards and ‘Build Back Better’ approaches in construction 22 December, 2020 - 03:50 Country: Tonga Source: Government of Tonga 21st December, 2020 Local contractors in Tonga who were involved in the construction aspects of the Pacific Resilience Program (PREP) have been equipped with enhanced capacity on environmental, health and safety (EHS) safeguard policies and resilience standards through the application of the ‘Build Back Better’ principles. Recognising the critical role that local contractors play in implementing the school reconstruction and rebuilding following Tropical Cyclone Gita, the Bank Executed Technical Assistance through the World Bank Safeguards Team provided capacity building to help them understand and apply the relevant EHS safeguards and help them to adhere to the requirements of ....