WORLD BANK FUNDING FOR SEA WALL IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS

WORLD BANK FUNDING FOR SEA WALL IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS

Posted by : Quoting Radio New Zealand Posted on : 23-Oct-2019

$US29 million allocated for Marshall Islands' seawall

Quoting Radio New Zealand – 23 October 2019

“The Marshall Islands Government says World Bank funding will help it design and build a new seawall on Ebeye.

“President Hilda Heine said that meant the country would be better placed to deal with the impacts of climate change.

“It was part of the Pacific Resilience Project, she said, which aims to strengthen warning systems, establish climate resilient investments on the shore, and to improve responses.

“Finance Minister Brenson Wase said it was likely to take more than a year to finalise the designs and then construction would take up to two years.

“The latest seawall allocation was separate from funding announced earlier this year for an Ebeye seawall, he said in a statement.”

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