Taloa Climate Change Adaptation Project

U.S. State Department, Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Activity for Taloa Climate Change Adaptation Project.

This project is aimed at mitigating the impacts of climate change on a vulnerable community in the Pacific Island country of Vanuatu by enabling a locally-identified shift towards more sustainable cultural and environmental tourism.

Activities include: a workshop to identify the primary ecological and cultural assets of the island in order to inventory resources as well as capacities (run by eco-tourism consultants with National Tourism Development Office), areas where environmental and cultural impacts of tourism can be minimized; and improving existing infrastructure for eco- and village tourism.

USG funds will be used for the workshops and only for the re-roofing of the .nakmal. or traditional village meeting house (a traditional structure and one listed as .a site of cultural significance. by the Vanuatu Cultural Center).