Our Projects

EIC Carbon Offset Program in Partnership with Climate Care

The Climate Institute has entered into a partnership with Climate Care of UK for its EIC Carbon Offset Program through which it is possible for individuals or families to offset their carbon emissions and contribute to the Endangered Island Campaign at the same time. Individual contributions due to offsetting will be funneled towards renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in the small island states, which are part of the Global Sustainable Energy Island Initiative(GSEII) of Climate Institute. You can offset your carbon emissions now by clicking on the link.

Global Sustainable Energy Islands Initiative (GSEII)

The Climate Institute and its partners have been working with a number of SIDS to assist them in transforming their energy systems from a fossil fuel base to renewable energy. GSEII thereby seeks to showcase national efforts to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and raise international awareness of the challenges of climate change.

To find out more about participating islands and ongoing projects and events, please visit our GSEII website!!!

Caribbean Adaptation Project

Making the transition to a sustainable energy system is a complex process for island nations. Not only must these nations shift from their dependence on fossil fuel imports to self-reliant systems, but these energies must be compatible with their fragile ecosystems and special vulnerabilities to climate change.

More than 90% of commercial energy is currently generated from imported petroleum on small island nations in the Caribbean. The high price of oil and resulting electricity cost place an increasing burden on the average consumer, as well as on the tourism industry. In addition, power grids are susceptible to disruptions from storms and other climatic events, which often consequent a loss of electricity for the island populations. In order to create a truly sustainable energy system for developing island states, adaptation methods must be planned and implemented to ensure that the energies are both resilient to such events and reliable for the greatest number of people who need them. The devastation of the majority of Grenada’s infrastructure from Hurricane Ivan in 2004 is one of many examples that illustrate the need for adaptive systems to take shape in developing island nations to alleviate the dangers of climate effects on a nation’s way of life.

The World Bank is currently working on several key adaptation issues on the islands of Dominica, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, addressing the effects of climate change on biodiversity and coastal land degradation within the framework of the islands’ national planning processes. In providing support toward adaptation measures accounting for these issues, the World Bank will help demonstrate how such measures may be implemented, and that the resulting benefits are great.

The World Bank is joining the efforts of the Climate Institute and GSEII in aiding the islands of St. Lucia, Dominica, and Grenada in enhancing their capacities to adopt sustainable energy technologies and limit their susceptibilities to the effects of climate change. Through the Institute’s Caribbean Adaptation Project, synergies will be identified between climate change adaptation planning and the planning and implementation of the sustainable energy plans of the participating states.