ABSTRACT
Solomon Islands, like other small island developing states in the Pacific region, is feeling the effects of climate change. Solomon Islands is a small Pacific island country that sits east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly 1,000 islands, with geographies ranging from tiny remote atolls to large mountainous islands. The culture is predominately Melanesian, with a population of just over half a million. Its people, scattered across remote villages that are often separated by many days of travel, are familiar with the threat of climate- and weatherinduced hazards such as cyclones, flooding and drought, having lived with and adapted to climate variability for hundreds of years. The emerging threat of climate change exacerbates these hazards and brings new ones, such as rising sea levels, more frequent and destructive king tides, erosion and consequent salt water incursion.
