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Northern Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance (NAILSMA) climate change adaptation workshop report

Climate Change Resilience

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NAILSMA

It was made clear from all of the presentations that climate change is occurring and its consequences, or changes attributed to climate change, are manifestly being observed and noted by Traditional owners on country in ways that richly complement the much more publicised knowledge emerging from the western scientific paradigm. The impacts are both direct and indirect, obvious and variously disguised, environmental and social. The way to mitigate impacts and adapt to changes varies across natural and human landscapes. One of the key features in north Australia is the relatively large proportion of Indigenous people who are particularly vulnerable, not only to obvious physical impacts of climate change effects like more frequent severe cyclones; but to background conditions such as economic underinvestment, poverty, health issues and the vicissitudes of policy making. Such conditions in over-governed, under-resourced communities (remote and urban) exacerbate problems with adaptation to change and capacity to respond. Climate change in north Australia cannot be treated in isolation from existing conditions of life and is increasingly affecting Indigenous lives everywhere, becoming a key stimulus for driving Indigenous capacity, response and adaptation to short and long term changes in their physical and social environment.

Report of the 10th Conference of the Parties (COP10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Nagoya, Japan 18-29 October, 2010

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Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) (SPREP)

The 10th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity was held from the 18th to the 29th October in Nagoya, Japan. About 15,000 delegates representing parties, UN Agencies, NGOs, Inter-Governmental Organizations, indigenous and local communities, private sector, and academia attended the meeting.

The emissions gap report : are the Copenhagen accord pledges sufficient to limit global warming to 2 degrees C or 1.5 degrees C? : a preliminary assessment

Climate Change Resilience

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UNEP

The Copenhagen Accord declared that deep cuts in global emissions are required so as to hold the increase in global temperature below 2 degrees Celsius. The Accord called for an assessment that would consider strengthening the long-term goal including temperature rises of 1.5 degrees. Since December 2009, 140 countries1 have associated themselves with the Copenhagen Accord. Of these, 85 countries have pledged to reduce their emissions or constrain their growth up to 2020.

climate change assessment

Global ocean protection: present status and future possibilities

Biodiversity Conservation

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IUCN WCPA,/UNEP-WCMC

The important commitments made by the international community at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development and the Convention on Biological Diversity to put in place ecologically representative and effectively managed networks of MPAs by 2012 and to effectively conserve at least 10% of each of the worlds marine and coastal ecological regions have sparked important efforts towards ocean conservation.

Forests and climate change in the Asia-Pacific region

Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation

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FAO of the United Nations

There is now global consensus that climate change is a real and significant threat strongly related to anthropogenic causes. The implications are arguably even more relevant for the Asia-Pacific than other regions given its high population levels, large numbers of poor and otherwise vulnerable people and the richness of biodiversity and ecology among its highly diverse countries. It is also a region with some of the greatest potential both in terms of carbon sequestration capacity and the human resources to contribute to both mitigation and adaptation efforts. One of the key areas of focus on the current international climate change stage is the role of forests. The significance of this single factor in mitigating, or potentially hastening the process of climate change, is coming to be fully realized. In light of this, and the particularly close linkage between communities in the Asia-Pacific region and the forests upon which many depend, it is imperative that forests play a central role in efforts to manage or adapt to climate change.

Coping with climate change in the Pacific island region: component: sustainable tourism and climate change

Climate Change Resilience

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Lengefeld, Klaus

For the tourism component, the 4 Pacific countries where tourism is in absolut and/or relative figures the most important economic sector had been preselected: Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa and Palau. After having assessed during the preparatory mission the current situation of tourism and its future projection in these countries, it became clear that, since tourism is mainly driven by the private sector, communities and assisting NGOs, also the the focus of climate change adaptation would habe to be on those partners plus government entities wherever they play a role to direct tourism development.

Adaptation to and mitigation of climate change in the agriculture and forestry sector: collection of best practices

Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation

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Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)

The effects of climate change require strong actions from policy-makers, extension officers and communities to strengthen resilience to the expected negative impacts. Sea-level rise, changes in precipitation patterns and other effects cannot be avoided, but there are many means to reduce the vulnerability of communities. To equip the actors in this adaptation process with the right tools, the Regional Programme on Adaptation to Climate Change in the Pacific Island Region is setting up a knowledge management system including a database on climate change. A collection of best practices from the region and other parts of the world will be part of this venture. The collection of best practices from the region will be completed by the thematic teams of SPC Land Resources Division. This desk-study gathers examples from across the globe.

Adaptation to climate change related to marine and land-based natural resources : Coping with climate change in the Pacific island region (CCCPIR)

Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation

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Chapman, Lindsay

Konkel, Nana

Coastal communities in the Pacific are without doubt some of the most vulnerable to climate change effects in the world. The limited land area in some countries and low profile of atolls (many only 3m above sea level at high tide) exacerbate the vulnerability of these locations, and the governments and people of these countries have limited capacities and resources to cope at all levels.

Coping with climate change in the Pacific island region : final report energy component

Climate Change Resilience

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Kaupp, Albrecht

The energy component design of CCCPIR has benefited from various excellent and frank assessments of what has been going right as well as wrong in the energy sector in this region, what should be done in terms of future guiding principles, and the need for changing framework conditions to overcome barriers1 . The energy component will focus on three key areas towards a sustainable, socially fair, inclusive and climate change relevant indigenous based future energy management for sustainable economic development. The first key area outputs will appraise the annual incremental and aggregated incremental costs to achieve very ambitious or even unrealistic benchmarks of national energy policy plans for the year 2010 - 2020 and beyond. Who is paying and who can afford to pay? Jointly working on the answers with as many stakeholders as possible should increase awareness that the present fragmented donor driven and project oriented piecemeal approach becomes too unsustainable and costly for the PICs and donors.

Aquaculture development: 4. ecosystem approach to aquaculture

Environmental Governance, Biodiversity Conservation

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FAO

Social and biophysical dimensions of ecosystems are inextricably related such that a change in one dimension is highly likely to generate a change in the other. Although change is a natural consequence of complex interactions, it must be monitored and even managed if the rate and direction of change threatens to undermine system resilience.

aquaculture

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