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The purpose of this abbreviated “Summary Report” is to provide the UN System and external stakeholders with the key results from a broad-based Climate Change “Scoping Study” to identify options for the UN System to scale up climate change support to Pacific Island Countries. The report contains a series of recommendations proposing potential focal areas for future UN System Climate Change programming work and collaborative opportunities. Specific feedback on the Inter Agency Climate Change Centre (IACCC) concept note and other development support mechanisms is provided. The scoping study was commissioned by the UN system in the Pacific with funding by UNDP.

This publication demonstrates the link between disaster riskreduction andclimate change adaptation, while contributing to the ongoing glolal effort to promote gender equality in socio-economic development.

This paper is about climate change in the Pacific from the perspective of Indigenous Peoples - The Liquid Continent! On average, more than 90% of Pacific peoples are Indigenous and have been involved for many years in the UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol as well other climate change processes to call for climate justice in our region and to support similar calls by other indigenous brothers and sisters around the world to stop the injustices that impact on our rights and lands because of the issue of climate change. The flawed so-called solutions promoted in Bali in December 2007 are cases in point. As we continue to witness the natural and manmade disastrous phenomenon in our world of today, it brings home to us the reality that the world of today is a disaster machine producing crises with distressing regularity, unprecedented global catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions like social disintegration, and man induced environmental disasters such as climate change!

The Parties to this Convention, Acknowledging that change in the Earth’s climate and its adverse effects are a common concern of humankind, Concerned that human activities have been substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, that these increases enhance the natural greenhouse effect, and that this will result on average in an additional warming of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere and may adversely affect natural ecosystems and humankind