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A step closer to ending use of fossil fuel in Solomon Islands

THE Solomon Islands Government is moving from fossil fuel to renewable energy in an effort to enhance the country’s energy efficiency and reduce reliance on diesel fuel source through hydro and other renewable energy sources. The move was seen as a step closer to ending its near-total reliance on diesel-powered electricity, thereby curbing greenhouse emission into the atmosphere. Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Disaster Management and Meteorology, Dr Melchior Mataki told Island Sun this week that the government’s support in the energy sector is from a climate change mitigation perspective – reducing or avoidance of emission of greenhouse

Solomon Islands faces wrath of climate change FROM the melting glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica to the low-lying states of the Pacific Islands, like in the Solomon Islands, the

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Tell the nation what you achieved in RIPEL talks in Brisbane: Keruval land trust board chairman RUSSELL Islands’s Keruval Tribe Land Trust Board Chairman, Silas Selo, has called on

Bio-fluorescent turtles, imperative conservation and childhood dreams become reality. “The more I fly over vast untouched regions of our globe, the more clear it becomes what an incredible accomplishment

LIKE many women who enjoy selling products from their hard work and hand given talents Judy Stanley is one of them. She has a stall at Art Gallery where she

The mixed thoughts upon someone you come across in life that has never been to a place you think they should at least reach….. HONIARA is an attractive place to

LEAVING three children behind and joining the seasonal workers programme to work for money is challenging for thirty-year-old mother Babra Gatu. Babra Gatu is one of the many Solomon Islands

Why the emphasis on peace-building in the UN Sustainable Development Goals is essential THE United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include peace-building as part of a changing paradigm of

FOR those curious for a spicy taste, a new restaurant and Bar with a taste for Fiji-Indian traditional cuisine was opened along the Kukum Highway. The new eatery located at

ONLY respected Solomon Islanders take up three important roles in serving the government, church and culture. One such person is Reverend Green Zino of Zaira Village in South Vangunu,

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