Gavin Allwright Archives - The Marshall Islands Journal

RMI’s climate-friendly ship

By Journal on May 9, 2024 Ben Vroom, CMI Maritime Vocational Training Center, Gavin Allwright, German Agency for International Development, GIZ, International Windship Association, Juren Ae, Raffael Held, South Korea, SV Juren Ae News Archive

The Marshall Islands’ cargo ship, SV Juren Ae, is in its final stage of construction at the ASIA Shipbuilding Company on Geoje Island in South Korea. According to a release from the German Agency for International Development, which is known in Majuro as GIZ*, this week the dedicated rigging team is focusing their efforts on […]

Making water from air

By Journal on February 5, 2016 Ailuk, climate change, drought, Dustin Langidrik, Gavin Allwright, water News Archive

A project to harvest fresh water using simple and affordable equipment was this month officially handed over to the grateful community of Ailuk Atoll, which regularly suffers from drought conditions. In March and April last year, Dustin Langidrik, the University of the South Pacific’s Climate Change project coordinator worked with British environment researchers Andrew Tweedie […]