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A strategic focus for the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) project in 2010 was to enhance project implementation capacity at all levels from the regional to the country level in particular delivering on the three main components1 of the project and overall project management. Such a direction was given to the SPREP Regional Project Management Unit (RPMU) and UNDP by the PACC Project Board at its August 2010 meeting.

Report from the PACC project

The PACC Project aims to enhance the adaptive capacity of human and biophysical systems through measures designed to reduce the vulnerability to the adverse effects of climate change on key priority development sectors of government (coastal, food production and food security, and water sectors). The three main building blocks or outcomes of the project – mainstreaming, demonstration and communications – are implemented at the community and country levels while supporting the systemic and institutional capacity to address adaptation across the Pacific islands region.

This publication was conceived with the idea of showing how the planet has changed in two decades—just twenty years—since decision-makers met at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. To relay this information in a compelling and succinct manner, environmental and related trends are charted and presented using globally-aggregated (and mainly statistical) data sets collected by international agencies, research bodies and other official entities.

The PACC is an initiative / opportunity to materialize the GEF support to adaptation into actual adaptation implementation in the Pacific Region (GEF Special Climate Change Fund – SCCF). The PACC is a direct response of UNDP and SPREP to PICs’ expressed wish to implement adaptation.

PACC Project implements long -term adaptation measures to increase the resilience of a number of key development sectors in Pacific Island Countries to the impacts of climate change. This objective will be achieved by focusing on long - term planned adaptation response strategies, policies and implementation strategies to bring about this result. The key focal areas are water resources management, food production and food security, and coastal zone management.