AGP Executive Report
Last update: 26 minutes agoClimate diplomacy: At COP31, Prime Minister Matthew Wale urged major emitters to cut emissions and provide faster, grant-based climate finance, saying climate impacts cost Solomon Islands about US$79 million a year. Climate funding row: The government defended its US$400,000 Green Climate Fund pledge as a voluntary show of leadership; Opposition Leader Manasseh Sogavare questioned the spending while domestic adaptation remains underfunded. Poverty and planning: A new report estimates 40.4 per cent of Solomon Islanders—about 322,500 people—live below the poverty line, with rural communities hardest hit. The country has also begun developing its first National Adaptation Plan to turn climate-risk findings into practical priorities. Provincial governance: Guadalcanal’s government says it is advancing the legal and institutional groundwork for possible statehood. Health: A nationwide treatment campaign helped cut scabies prevalence by 83 per cent between 2021 and 2025, the Health Minister said.
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