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Too Little, Too Slow - Climate Adaptation Failure Puts World at Risk : Adaptation Gap Report 2022

Climate Change Resilience

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Climate risks are increasing as global warming accelerates. Strong mitigation and adaptation are both key to avoiding hard adaptations limits.

Integrating Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management: A Practitioner's Guide

Environmental Governance, Climate Change Resilience

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Matthews, John

In all countries, economic growth comes with the loss of natural capital, our ultimate sources of wealth. Therefore, the challenge is combining growth with preserving our ecosystem to secure more prosperous Asia and the Pacific.

Visualisation of Climate Change Impacts to Pacific Fisheries long video without subtitles

SPREP Publications, Climate Change Resilience

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To better inform senior policy makers and decision makers and other stakeholders, including through UNFCCC processes, the Secretariat of Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) sought the services of science illustrators/ communicators/ graphic designers to develop short visualisations highlighting the implications of climate change impacts for Pacific fisheries.

Visualisation of Climate Change Impacts to Pacific Fisheries short video with subtitles

SPREP Publications, Climate Change Resilience

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The negative effects of ocean warming and ocean acidification on the heath and extent of living coral reefs will reduce the amount of habitat available for many coastal fish species in the Pacific Island region. Taken together, the direct and indirect effects of climate change on coastal fish species will reduce the number of fish available for food security of Pacific Island people who have traditionally depended heavily on fish for food, and the number of livelihoods that can be supported by fishing in coastal waters

Visualisation of Climate Change Impacts to Pacific Fisheries long video with subtitles

SPREP Publications, Climate Change Resilience

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The movement of tuna in this way will have a serious impact on the economies of a number of Pacific Island Countries. Lower catches of tuna from their waters will reduce their collective income from tuna-fishing access fees by 20% by 2050 under a continued high greenhouse gas emissions scenario. This will limit the funds that these countries have to develop their health and education systems and to build necessary infrastructure like roads

Visualisation of Climate Change Impacts to Pacific Fisheries short videos without subtitles

SPREP Publications, Climate Change Resilience

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Over the past decade, international research and modelling has pointed to likely climate change impacts on fisheries in the Pacific region. Recent research on the effects of climate change on the rich tuna resources of the region points to an eastward redistribution of tuna, which are predicted to move progressively from the exclusive economic zones of Pacific Island countries and territories to the high seas (international waters).

Report of the Third (3rd) SPREP Executive Board Meeting, 8–9 September 2022.

SPREP Publications, Key SPREP Documents, Environmental Governance, Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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The Third Executive Board Meeting was held virtually on 8–9 September 2022 in Apia, Samoa. Present at the meeting were representatives from Niue, Republic of Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, United Kingdom and Wallis and Futuna. Attending as Observers were Australia and Samoa. The full list of participants is attached as Annex 1.

Drivers of Global Mangrove Loss and Gain in Social-Ecological systems

Biodiversity Conservation

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Hagger, Valerie

Lovelock, Catherine. E

Worthington, Thomas. A

et al

Mangrove forests store high amounts of carbon, protect communities from storms and support fisheries. Mangroves exist in complex social-ecological systems hence identifying socioeconomic conditions associated with decreasing losses and increasing gains remains challenging albeit important.

Spatial use of Marine Resources in a Rural Village: A case study from Qoma, Fiji

Biodiversity Conservation

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Kitolelei, Salanieta

Lowry, John. H

Qaqara, Nemillie

et al

Understanding the values of fishers' Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge (TIK) and of fishers' spatial use of customary fishing grounds is an important contributing factor to marine resource management. This study investigates and documents TIK marine resource and the associated spatial knowledge of fishing areas in Qoma, a rural fishing village in Fiji.

Melanesia holds the World’s most Diverse and Intact Insular Amphibian Fauna

Biodiversity Conservation

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Bower, Deborah. S

McDonald, Peter. J

Oliver, Paul M.

et al

Identifying hotspots of biological diversity is a key step in a conservation prioritisation. Melanesia centred on the vast island of New Guinea - is increasingly for its exceptionally species rich and endemic biota. Here we show that Melanesia has the world's most diverse insular amphibian fauna, with over 7% of recognised global fog species in less than 0.7% of the world's land area and over 97% of species endemic.

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