Pacific Islands Greenhouse Gas Abatement through Renewable Energy Project (PIGGAREP) : project document

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Microsoft Word - PIGGAREP ProDoc - final 180107 1 UNDP Project Document Governments of the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu United Nations Development Programme Global Environment Facility (GEF) Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme Pacific Islands Greenhouse Gas Abatement through Renewable Energy Project (PIGGAREP) The global environment and development goal of PIGGAREP is the reduction of the growth rate of GHG emissions from fossil fuel use in the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) through the removal of the barriers to the widespread and cost effective use of feasible renewable energy (RE) technologies. The specific objective of the project is the promotion of the productive use of RE to reduce GHG emission by removing the major barriers to the widespread and cost-effective use of commercially viable RE technologies (RETs). PIGGAREP consists of various activities