Solomon Islands

In their 2016 NDC, the Solomon Islands included adaptation activities around community-based adaptation planning and risk-reduction. These bottom-up approaches to risk-management, linked to top-down national plans, are a systematic way to address the climate adaptation challenges that many small island developing nations face: extreme floods, drought, sea-level rise, and increasingly strong and frequent tropical cyclones. These countries have, in many cases, been facing these challenges for decades, if not centuries, and have some of the best developed coping strategies across the globe. They are a great example of how local knowledge can drive local solutions that can be piloted and scaled up where appropriate. Given that many of their climate risks are directly water-related, the national government of the Solomon Islands is also working on implementing a national IWRM plan.