Climate change adaption and mitigation
Navigating Climate Impacts with Insight and Action
Climate change affects every part of the systems people depend on: the land they grow food on, the water they rely on, the infrastructure that keeps communities connected and the services that protect public health. We help governments, businesses and development partners understand these impacts and design practical responses that reduce risk, strengthen resilience and support long term sustainability.
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Climate adaptation and mitigation solutions
Prime Consulting works across the physical, financial, economic and social dimensions of climate change. Our experience includes climate smart agriculture, renewable energy solutions, greenhouse gas reduction, infrastructure strengthening, biosecurity and food security risk management, disaster risk reduction and humanitarian response. This work spans the Pacific, Asia and Africa, giving us a clear understanding of the realities communities face on the ground.
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Making climate finance accessible
We bring more than a financing perspective. Our teams understand the technical, operational and social drivers behind climate vulnerabilities and the challenges of addressing them. This ensures that climate finance aligns with real needs and that mitigation and adaptation efforts are both practical and achievable. Our experience in the Pacific is especially deep, covering capacity building, climate finance, mitigation and adaptation across both public and private sectors.
Capabilities
Prime Consulting services range from technical advisory work to strategic and operational reviews, policy analysis, infrastructure assessments and management support. We take a strongly localised approach, with more than 70 per cent of our team being in-country nationals. We prioritise effective community engagement from strategy to implementation and maintain a strong focus on gender and youth.
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Improving water access
Water availability is often the difference between a good harvest and total crop failure. We have extensive experience in rural irrigation improvement and in developing community led approaches to water management. One example is the design and construction of 20 low cost community dams in Bamyan Province, Afghanistan. Built and maintained by farmer groups, these dams helped increase crop income by an average of 51 per cent within the first year, with a payback period of less than twelve months. We also support water supply projects in urban areas.
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Protecting food systems
We have managed multi year agricultural development programmes in several countries. Our work includes assessing climate impacts on food security and introducing climate sensitive agricultural practices that are practical and affordable for local communities. During the Zambia Dairy Transformation Programme, farmers significantly increased their adoption of climate resilient practices such as crop rotation, rotational grazing and minimum tillage.
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Clean energy expertise
Our renewable energy work spans biogas, solar, hydropower and geothermal solutions. Between 2014 and 2017 we trained and mentored staff at a local power company in Bamyan Province, Afghanistan, helping them run a one megawatt solar facility as a profitable and sustainable operation. We also developed a code of practice for safe on farm biogas systems in Australia for Australian Pork Limited.
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Unlocking funding for resilience
We prepare climate finance proposals and support countries to access international funding. This includes securing USD 3 million from the Adaptation Fund to help the remote Pa Enua islands of the Cook Islands prepare for hazards such as coastal erosion, cyclones and drought. Our skillset covers environmental economics, climate finance, climate planning, feasibility studies, cost benefit analysis, quantitative and qualitative research and financial modelling.
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Reducing emissions effectively
We have completed greenhouse gas footprinting for the Fiji and Zambian dairy sectors, showing that increasing animal productivity reduces emissions per unit of milk and meat. Our work also includes supporting commercial forestry operations, research on biochar and carbon trading fintech, and developing national greenhouse gas inventories, such as the first cattle emissions inventory for Zambia.
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Strengthening government systems
Many of our climate related projects involve foundational support to public agencies, especially in Small Island Developing States. This includes climate finance readiness, public finance management, programme design and national planning. In 2020 we mentored staff at the Government of Kiribati to develop a four year national development plan addressing challenges related to geography, population growth and climate change.
Examples of Past Work
Provided ongoing support for a New Zealand commercial forest operation involving carbon trading and emissions management (2019 to present).
Supported preparation of a direct access Green Climate Fund project for the Cook Islands Ministry of Health (2022 to 2023).
Introduced climate resilient agricultural practices to farmers in Zambia through the Zambia Dairy Transformation Programme (2017 to 2023).
Designed water security interventions for Afghanistan’s water stressed provinces (2020 to 2021).
Completed biosecurity and food security climate impact analysis in Samoa and Tonga for the Pacific Community (2021).
Revised a Green Climate Fund pre feasibility study on climate change and invasive species impacts on Pacific food security (2021).
Supported the Government of Kiribati to develop its national development plan (2020).
Completed a feasibility assessment of the global modular geothermal desalination market for a private client (2020).
Completed greenhouse gas footprinting for the Fiji and Zambian dairy industries (2019).
Secured USD 3 million Adaptation Fund financing for the Pa Enua islands (2018 to 2019).
Assisted the Cook Islands with its first direct access Adaptation Fund proposal (2017 to 2018).
Trained and mentored staff to operate a one megawatt solar facility in Bamyan, Afghanistan (2014 to 2017).
Designed sustainable financing for Tonga’s Joint National Action Plan (2014 to 2015).
Developed the On Farm Biogas Code of Practice for Australian Pork Limited, published in 2015.
Designed the Vanuatu Environment and Climate Change Trust Fund for the Asian Development Bank (2014).
Built 20 low cost community irrigation dams in Bamyan Province (2013 to 2014).
Prepared technical reports and provided facilitation support for Pacific Finance Ministers on climate finance access (2013).
Provided technical oversight for the Samoa Climate Change Adaptation Trust Fund (2012 to 2013).
Established the Sovi Basin Trust Fund in Fiji (2001 to 2002).