LDCF Vanautu

Population: 0.3 million
CO2 emissions per capita: 0.4 ton

Region	Country	NAPA submission date	Implementing Agency	Status of follow-up projects
Small Islands  and developing  states	Vanautu	Dec 2007	NAPA: UNDP  Follow-up World  Bank	PIF/PPG Submitted

A very small island developing state

Vanuatu is situated in the South Pacific’s and is an archipelago of 83 islands which comprises a land area of 12,336 km2. The two largest islands, Espiritu Santu and Malekula comprise nearly 50 % of the land mass. The total coast line is about 2,528 km long. Most of Vanuatu’s population lives along the coast and in low-lying regions of Vanuatu. Vanuatu became independent in 1980.

Vanuatu is already highly vulnerable to a range of natural disasters, many of which will be exacerbated by climate change. Vanuatu is highly susceptible to cyclones, coastal flooding, river flooding, earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis and volcanic eruption and is ranked alongside Solomon Islands as the most disaster prone nation in the region.

The archipelago was chosen for the evaluation as representative of the Small Island Developing States in the Pacific that share relatively low human development indices.

Vanuatu and the NAPA

The NAPA was submitted in late in 2007. As distinct from the other countries selected for case studies the implementing agency for the NAPA follow up initiative is the World Bank.