Guinea-Bissau secures 10 mln USD for climate resilience project

BISSAU, June 5 — Guinea-Bissau has secured 10 million U.S. dollars in funding for a new climate resilience project aimed at protecting vulnerable coastal and urban communities from growing climate risks, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) said Thursday. The funding was approved by the Least Developed Countries Fund, managed by the Global Environment Facility, for the seven-year project “Resilient Futures: Safeguarding Guinea-Bissau’s Coastlines and Urban Areas from Climate Risks,” the UNDP said in a statement. The project, to be implemented by Guinea-Bissau’s Ministry of Environment, Biodiversity and Climate Action with support from the UNDP, will focus on the wider Bissau urban and peri-urban area, Bubaque Island and Varela.