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About a quarter of the population of Solomon Islands will learn skills that help them to adapt to more extreme weather events as the climate crisis worsens, under a new six-year project announced today by Save the Children and the Green Climate Fund.
The US$31.8 million climate resilience project will help children and communities in the low-lying Pacific Island nation adapt to the worsening impacts of the climate crisis. The Solomon Islands is one of the most vulnerable places in the world to rising sea levels and extreme weather events, like cyclones.
The project will include measures such as the incorporation of a climate change curriculum in schools, support for youth entrepreneurs to create new resilient livelihood opportunities, increasing communities’ food and water security through support for climate resilient farming and water conservation, increasing school resilience to climate change impacts and shoring up access to education during times of crisis.
According to research from the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV), Solomon Islands has the world’s second highest risk of disasters such as floods, cyclones and sea-level rise. With around two-thirds of people living within one kilometre of the coast[[ii]](https://www.savethechildren.net/news/bees-help-vulnerable-solomon-islands-communities-fight-against-climate-change#_edn2), communities are extremely vulnerable to these kinds of extreme weather events, which are getting more frequent and severe as a result of the climate crisis.