Vanuatu national communication to the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Vanuatu’s contribution to man-made global emissions of Greenhouse Gases (GHG)
is minute by international standards. Most emissions come from the combustion of
fuels for transport and electricity generation, with carbon dioxide the predominant
GHG emitted. Given the small proportion of the population with ready access to
transport and electric supplies, the importance of expanding these services for
economic and social development, and the dependence of Vanuatu on imported
technology and equipment, neither an absolute reduction in national GHG emissions
nor a reduction in GHG emissions per head of population is an immediate goal.
However strategies to promote electricity generation from solar, wind and tidal
current energy sources in association with phased adoption of international best
practices for power generation and engine design will minimise increases in GHG
emissions. At present GHG Inventory is too crude to allow useful prediction of the
level at which Vanuatu’s emissions will peak or when this will occur.

Kept in vertical file collection

Call Number: VF 4324 [EL],341.762'3 VAN

Physical Description: 54 p. ; 29 cm