CC / ENSO Animation Workshop

Pacific Climate Animation project

VMGD, CSIRO and Red Cross are hosting a workshop on Friday 26th October at the VMGD Conference Room to brainstorm ideas in development of an animation / cartoon describing ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) to communities.

All stakeholders welcome, enquiries to skaniaha@meteo.gov.vu or mcnaught@climatecentre.org.

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Activity Background

Opportunities exist for practitioners in the Pacific to have a greater understanding of climate change and climate variability to enable anticipation of disasters before they happen rather than waiting to respond afterwards. CSIRO in collaboration with the Vanuatu Meteorological Service, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre & Australian Red Cross International Volunteer program are forming a partnership to produce 2 cartoon animations explaining climate in the Pacific region. One for across the Pacific region, the other for Vanuatu as a pilot country for possible later scale up to other countries in the Pacific. It would aim to explain both climate change and climate variability (such as El Niño & La Niña), their impacts and each would last for approximately 3-4 minutes. They will draw upon the recent science to come out of the Pacific Climate Change Science Program and it is anticipated that they would be useful for a range of practitioners from across health, disaster management, agriculture, water and other fields of work. The project will run until June 2013 and the animations will be produced in close collaboration with stakeholders in Vanuatu and the Pacific region.

Rebecca McNaught
Senior Climate Advisor - Pacific
Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
Mob (Vanuatu): +6785345404
Mob (Australia): +61412933212
skype: becmcnaught
email: mcnaught@climatecentre.org
web: www.climatecentre.org