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Climate change has become one of the most important global issues of our time, with far-reaching natural, socio-economic, and political effects. To address climate change and development issues from the perspective of evaluation, an international conference was held in Alexandria, Egypt. This book distills the essence of that timely conference, building on the experiences of more than 400 reports and studies presented.

This report details a ten month scoping study conducted to assess the relative vulnerability of rural livelihoods across Pacific Island Countries (PICs) to climate change. The study focuses on East Timor (Timor-Leste) and 15 PICs (Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Palau, Fiji, Nauru, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu) (Fig. 1). This 7-page executive summary has been provided at the request of AusAID to offer an extended overview of the key issues and findings of this study. Further details are provided in the body of the report.

This report serves as the proceedings of the PACC Technical Meeting that was held at the Institute of Applied Sciences Conference Room, University of the South Pacific, Suva on the 5th – 9th October 2009. It hopes to encapsulates in summary form the different technical presentations provided by workshop facilitators and country delegates. Detail presentations will also be made available through the PACC website for further information and clarification if so needed by the reader.

From the melting glaciers of Nepal and Tibet to the low-lying atolls of the Pacific Islands, like in the Solomon Islands, the impact of the climate change is taking its toll o

One response to the urgent and dramatic challenge of climate change has been a growing interest by governments in carbon capture and storage at power stations. Tens of billions of dollar are being earmarked for a technology that aims to remove green-house gases from smoke stacks and bury it deep underground.In this UNEP-commissioned, Rapid Assessment report we present carbon capture and storage through a Green Economy lens outlining the potential in terms of natural systems – sys-ems from forests to grasslands that have been doing the job in a tried and tested way for millennia.