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Pacific media summit: PINA-SPC/GTZ Climate change workshop outcomes report (Port Vila, Vanuatu, 24-25 May 2009)

Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation

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PINA-SPC/GTZ

This paper provides a report on outcomes of the PINA-SPC/GTZ workshop to progress media outreach and media reporting of issues relating to Climate Change and Food Security in the Pacific. It also emphasises the unique position of Climate Change in that it cuts all sectors whether it be rural development, forestry, fisheries, and in socio-economic developments of people in the Pacific region specifically in PINA member countries with special reference to flooding in tropical areas, and droughts in subtropical areas, which are projected to become more frequent and intense, together with cyclones which are expected to become more severe.

Engaging our Pacific neighbours on climate change : Australia's approach

Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation

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Australian Government

Predicted changes to the climate in the Pacific region over the coming decades are expected to have significant implications for the livelihoods of Pacific island inhabitants. While contributing little to the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change, Pacific island countries are particularly vulnerable to its impacts because of their geographical, social, institutional and economic characteristics. Key impacts include damage to coastal systems, settlements and infrastructure; undermining of recent economic progress; exacerbation of existing water and food security challenges; increasing threats to human health; and degradation of regional biodiversity. Global mitigation efforts are a priority both for Australia and for Pacific island countries. In international climate change negotiations, Australia is advocating an ambitious global effort to stabilise greenhouse gases at 450 parts per million (ppm) carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2?e) or lower.

The future is here: climate change in the Pacific

Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation

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Maclellan, Nic

Developing nations in the Pacifi c are at the frontline of global climate change. Livelihoods and food and water sources that have sustained communities over generations are being threatened. People are losing land and being forced from their homes. Unless wealthy, developed countries like Australia and New Zealand take urgent action to curb emissions, some island nations in the Pacifi c face the very real threat of becoming uninhabitable.

United Nations Climate change scoping study : Opportunities to scale up Climate Change support to Pacific Island Countries

Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation

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Morrell Dr. Willy John

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.

Climate change : the science, impacts and solutions / A. Barrie Pittock

Climate Change Resilience

Pittock A. Barrie

Majuro declaration on climate change [at] the 9th Micronesia President Summit, July 16-17, 2009, Majuro, RMI

Climate Change Resilience

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We, the Heads of State of the north pacific, His Excellency Litokwa Tomeing, President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, His Excellency Emanuel Mori, President of the Federated States of Micronesia, His Excellency Johnson Toribiong, President of the Republic of palau, have met in Majuro on July 16 and 17, 2009, to address the adverse impacts of climate change, and call for urgent collective global action in addressing climate change

Pacific Adapation to Climate Change (PACC) : report of in-country consultations - Cook Islands, Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomons, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu

Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation

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PACC

Adapting to climate change in water resources and water services in Caribbean and Pacific small island countries

Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation

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Overmars, Marc

Small island countries are no different from other countries in that freshwater is essential to human existence and a major requirement in agricultural and other commercial production systems. However, the ability of the island countries to effectively man-age the water sector differs in Small Island Devel-oping States (SIDS), as they are constrained by their small size, isolation, fragility, natural vulnerability, and a limited human, financial and natural resource base.

Adapting to coastal climate change : a guidebook for development planners

Climate Change Resilience

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United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Adapting to Coastal Climate Change: A Guidebook for Development Planners (the Guidebook) provides a detailed treatment of climate concerns in coastal areas. The Guidebook proposes an approach for assessing vulnerability to climate change and climate variability, developing and implementing adaptation options, and integrating options into programs, development plans, and projects at the national and local levels. This is known as a vulnerability and adaptation or V&A approach. The summary presented here is designed for policymakers and others who are interested in the Guidebook’s key messages and may review the full version later or use the Guidebook as a reference document. The summary is organized by the steps in the V&A approach that is recommended in this Guidebook. References for the information provided in this summary are included in the main body of the Guidebook.

Convenient solutions to an inconvenient truth: ecosystem-based approaches to climate change

Climate Change Resilience

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World Bank

The World Bank's mission is to alleviate poverty and support sustainable development. Climate change is a serious environmental challenge that could undermine these goals. Since the Industrial Revolution, the mean surface temperature of Earth has increased an average 2 degrees celsius due to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

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