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Marine litter negatively affects the environment, people and coastal economies around the world. In the Pacific Region, the problem is even more serious as countries depends on healthy and sustainable marine ecosystems.

Maps are based on all currently available rainfall and temperature station data for the period 1991–2020.

The Vanuatu Climate Future Portal is a gateway to climate information services and tools providing users with the science, mapping, data videos and other resources to plan their adaptation actions, The web portal will be the primary operational tool used by VMGD to tailor national and provincial climate change projections to support planning, resilient development and climate change adaptation in Vanuatu

The benefits of the portal include the enhancement of the delivery and uptake of climate change science information in sectoral and community development, as well as applying of climate change projections to support Government of Vanuatu risk assessments across all sectors and in six provinces of Vanuatu.

The Vanuatu Climate Futures Portal is a gateway to climate information services and tools, providing users with the science, mapping, data, videos and other resources to plan their ad-aptation actions. The web portal will be the primary operational tool used by VMGD to tailor national and pro-vincial climate change projections to support planning, resilient development and climate change adaptation in Vanuatu. It includes sector case studies for Agriculture, Fisheries, Tourism, Infrastructure and Water to demonstrate how updated Vanuatu Climate Change projections using CMIP5 and CMIP6 model outputs are utilized by climate sensitive sectors to underpin decisions

It is important to note that communication, consultation, monitoring, evaluation and review are included at every step. This is part of an underpinning co-design and co-productions approach to climate action between climate science and service providers, sectoral end-used, local communities,non-governmental organisations (NGO) and other climate actors where appropriate.

This case study examines the impact of temperature on electricity demand in Efate.

The impact of waste and pollution is taking a toll on the health of communities, degrading natural ecosystems, threatening food security, impeding resilience to climate change, and adversely impacting social and economic development of countries in the region.