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These guidelines have been developed to assist CARICOM and SPREP country practitioners with the integration of climate change adaptation considerations into the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process, thereby ensuring the selection and implementation of feasible options for development projects. The guidelines adopt a risk management approach for dealing with the existent uncertainties associated with the present status of our knowledge to climate change.

Water resources on coral atolls are from ground water lenses. These lenses are extremely fragile and in many areas very limited in magnitude. Water lenses are also primary longterm water storage facility for many people. The quality of the lens is dependent on rainfall and the width of the land. From this, it is clearly evident that water resources in Kiribati would be threatened by climate change involving more frequent (shorter with severer impacts) or longer duration droughts and coastal erosion

Provides applied ocean, island and coastal geoscience services to support countries to govern and develop their natural resources, increase their resilience to hazards and facilitates data-based approaches to adaptation

The South Pacific Biodiversity Conservation Programme (SPBCP) was a multi-country conservation initiative undertaken from 1992 to 2001, with grant funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), managed by the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The SPBCP was designed to "develop strategies for the conservation of biodiversity by means of the sustainable use of biological resources by the people of the South Pacific." It was to work through country Lead Agencies to trial approaches to local community-based conservation.