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Established in 2000, the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) is a globalleader in enabling civil society to participate in and influence the conservation ofsome of the world’s most critical ecosystems. CEPF is a joint initiative of l’AgenceFrançaise de Développement (AFD), Conservation International, the EuropeanUnion, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Government of Japan, theJohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the World Bank. CEPF isunique among funding mechanisms in that it focuses on high-priority biologicalareas rather than political boundaries and examines conservation threats on alandscape scale. From this perspective, CEPF seeks to identify and support aregional, rather than a national, approach to achieving conservation outcomes andengages a wide range of public and private institutions to address conservationneeds through coordinated regional efforts.
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This poster highlights the benefits for small island-based tourism businesses in Vanuatu to utilize renewable energy. It is jointly prepared by the Department of Tourism, the Department of Energy & GIZ.
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Pacific Islanders are at the forefront of climate change; experiencing its varying impacts on coastlines, biodiversity, economy and most importantly on livelihoods. The conservation of mangroves and associated ecosystems is a key natural adaptation strategy and mitigation measure to climate change. Mangrove ecosystems provide goods and services highly valued by the people of the Pacific. However, this unique ecosystem faces continuing threats from overharvesting, degradation and land reclamation.
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As part of the preparedness towards any forthcoming disasters and continuous monitoring of the agricultural sector, the RRU in collaboration with FAO and DARD have established an early warning early action system that is run by the Risk and Resilience Unit (RRU) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry, Fisheries and Biosecurity (MALFFB) to the agricultural extension officers. The department of agriculture has a total of 45 extension officers that are based on all of the 6 provinces covering almost all the area councils of every island. The early warning early action system is mainly setup as a system monitoring the growth of main carbohydrate crops, vegetables and fruits and also the additional information’s from the officers on any other crops or just any unusual on the agriculture. This report serves to show what is collected from the extension officers and provincial agricultural officers during the seventh round of phone calls and show that if there is a spike in the data, then there would be need of further investigation.
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Learning about climate change the Pacific way
A picture based education resource for students, teachers and facilitators.
It introduces Pasifika as an imaginary island that is nowhere but everywhere. Pacific learners and explorers can find local buildings, plants, animals, people and geographical features they can relate to. The guides have been produced for Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu and Tuvalu in close partnership with these countries. The information is also relevant to all Pacific Island countries and territories
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This animation is a tool to raise awareness of the science and impacts of El Niño and La Niña and encourage Pacific Islanders to take early action in preparing for these extreme events. The film stars a comical and highly resilient crab and follows her escapades across the Pacific.
The animation is available in two sizes (55MB and 10MB) and comes with a toolkit to help facilitators link the information in the film with smart decision-making and action on the ground. The toolkit contains the Climate Crab Action Handbook (PDF) and Climate Crab slideshow (PPT).
You can view or download the animation and the toolkit via the Pacific Climage Change Science website:
www.pacificclimatechangescience.org/animations/climatecrab/
The animation is also available on YouTube.
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Cartoon illustrating how we should get rid of our rubbish in such a way that won't have environmental impacts.
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The Coastal Change Toolkit focuses on helping communities understand how coastlines work and what causes coastal change, and supporting decision-making to reduce the impacts of coastal hazards such as flooding and erosion on communities.
It is divided into 1) Volume One: Outreach 2) Volume Two: Planning.
Volume (1) provides detailed outreach materials to support an understanding of how coastlines work and what causes coastal flooding and shoreline change (natural and human-related). Volume (2) provides participatory processes that enable community members to use local knowledge to understand changes in their coastline and support decision-making that is best for local situations and capacity.
Both of the volumes in this guide can be used together as a step-by-step process to carry out outreach and conduct planning to select a suite of appropriate actions that, in combination, address local coastal hazard issues. Alternately, the individual volumes can be used separately to support existing community resource-management processes such as raising awareness or completing vulnerability assessments.
COASTAL CHANGE IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS Volume One: A Guide to Support Community Understanding of Coastal Erosion and Flooding Issues (8 MB)
COASTAL CHANGE IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS Volume Two: A Guide to Support Community Decision-Making on Coastal Erosion and Flooding Issues (1 MB)
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Climate Change in the Pacific is a rigorously researched, peer-reviewed scientific assessment of the climate of the western Pacific region. Building on the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, this two volume publication represents a comprehensive resource on the climate of the Pacific.
VOLUME 1: REGIONAL OVERVIEW
Volume 1 presents an overview of the region: analysis of large-scale climate phenomena such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, seasonal variability and past climate trends and further develops regional climate change projections. Download the report from the links below.
DOWNLOAD FULL REPORT: VOLUME 1
Climate Change in the Pacific. Scientific Assessment and New Research, Volume 1. Regional Overview [PDF, 20.1MB]
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Through this three-to-five year project, C-CAP will work across 12 Pacific Island countries, collaborating with up to 90 communities on:
1. Rehabilitating and constructing new, small-scale community infrastructure
2. Building capacity for community engagement for disaster prevention and preparedness
3. Integrating climate resilient policies and practices into long-term land use plans and building standards
In each community, C-CAP will work within community governance systems to:
· Conduct community/risk mapping exercises.
· Assess vulnerability of small-scale social, economic and water infrastructure
o I.e., health clinics, schools, community centers, jetties, water tanks, drainage systems…
· Name adaptation options for vulnerable infrastructure.
· Prioritize options through a multi-criteria analysis exercise.
· Fund one—prioritized—infrastructure rehabilitation / construction project (approx. US$50,000 per community).
· Revisit Risk Maps to review risk to projected climate impacts—and support land use planning exercises, scaling up plans to provincial and national government.
· Implement nature-based infrastructure activities when appropriate (mangrove reforestation, erosion control, etc.)
· Support DRR and preparedness activities and planning.
USAID intends to implement C-CAP in two-to-three ni-Vanuatu Provinces (10-15 communities) from 2012 to 2015.
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In 2012 Advanced Eco Solutions NZ, were commissioned
to design a solar power solution suitable for powering a
desalination plant located near the school at Sangali on
the north side of Uleveu Island. The key purpose of this
plant was to provide the local community with enough water
to sustain their needs during the droughts common in the
Pacific.
The system was designed to make up to 3000 litres of water
per day during the 3 month dry season. With the addition
of the water storage facilities the new system is capable of
delivering 4 litres of water per person for 1500 locals. The
people on the island had historically used water from wells
which had been dug into the coral. This water is filtered
water from the sea but is often contaminated with bugs, and
ultimately results in many locals suffering from illness.
The aim of the distilled water is to give the locals clean water
to drink and prepare food. During the non-drought seasons
the water at the facility is available for showers to reduce skin
related diseases and wash basins for clothes laundering.
The solar powered panels driving the water desalination
system often produce excess solar power which is presently
being used to make block ice. The ice is used to keep market
fish cool and extend the fishing period by a couple of days.
The ice is also sold to the villages and the money raised is
to be used for maintenance and surplus funds set aside for
further projects.
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At the first United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP) held in Berlin in 1995, Atiq
Rahman of the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies gave an
impassioned speech to the delegates and warned, “If climate change makes
our country uninhabitable . . . we will march with our wet feet into your
living rooms.”1 Climate change related impacts such as floods, tsunamis,
hurricanes, and drought have already caused millions of people around the
globe to relocate, both temporarily and permanently, within and without
their home countries.2 Never before, however, have climate change related
impacts resulted in the disappearance of a nation and forced its population
to resettle in a foreign country without any possibility of returning to its
homeland. Yet the permanent displacement of a nation due to anthropogenic
climate change may soon become a reality. Despite numerous mitigation
efforts, including building sea walls and planting mangrove trees, rising sea
levels and storm surges have left numerous families on the Carteret Islands
of Papua New Guinea homeless and without adequate food and fresh water
supplies.3 The islands are predicted to be underwater by 2015, earning the
people of the Carterets the notorious distinction as the world’s first climate
“refugees.”
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Erosion is the process where soft shorelines (sand, gravel
or cobble) disappear and land is lost. Erosion generally
comes in two forms; 1) A natural part of the coastal environment
where a soft shore moves and changes in response to
cyclic climatic conditions, and 2) Erosion can be induced by
human interference of natural sand movement and budget
patterns. Erosion can be slow and ongoing over many
years or fast and dramatic following large storm events.
Many erosion problems in the Pacific today, occur because
of poor planning, inappropriate shoreline development, over
crowding, beach mining for building material and due to reef
degradation.
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Powerpoint presentations to promote awareness of impacts of climate change and practical adaptations.
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The Tabwemasana Research Project was conducted from 2010-2011 in the Republic of Vanuatu on
the island of Espiritu Santo (Santo) which is the largest in the nation’s archipelago of 83 islands. The
study derived its name (with permission from the local Chiefs) from the highest mountain in
Vanuatu, Mt Tabwemasana, located on the island of Espiritu Santo. The total population of Vanuatu
is 243,304 and Santo is 34,388 (VNSOa 2009). The nation’s population is largely constituted of young
people with 41% of the population 0 - 15 years of age (MICS 2007). The study was funded and
supported by an Australian Government Endeavour Research Fellowship Award and conducted in
partnership with Vanuatu Earth Care Association (VECA) and the University of the South Pacific
(Luganville campus) after attaining a research permit from the Government of Vanuatu. The project
had the endorsement and involvement of the local Chiefs and Councillors. It was conducted on
behalf of the community for Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu, who actively conserve healthy and sustainable
social, cultural, economic and environmental systems.
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Scientist say climate change is already happening and temperatures will go on rising. They expect more extreme and more erratic weather. Sea levels will rise. hundreds of millions of poor people countries will be hit hardest.
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The overview progresses from low-level concepts to higher level and establish the
progression between the essential concepts for this level. One of the primary
purposes of this programme is to lay the foundation for linking weather to ocean
matters and Argo.
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La Nina known El Nino is also an event that occurs when cooler than sea surface tempretures form along the equator in the pacific ocean, especially in eastern to central pacific.
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Set of 5 posters giving awareness of need to protect yourself & to protect the ozone layer
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As many readers will know, the south pacific sea level and climate ,monitaring project was initially develped in the early 1990's as a respond to concerns about the potiential impacts of global warming and sea levels in the pacific. The AUSAID funded project was established with a goal of providing accurate, long term record of sea levels in the south pacific both for partner countries and international scientific community which need such information to better understand how the pacific oceanographic and meteorogical environment is changing. That, in turn will assist governments and ultimately communities to respond to and adapt to both short and long term change, and better manage any likely impacts. 14 pacific isIand countries are involved in the monitaring of sea level rise and related phenomena.
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Information on live and learn projects, including adaptation to climate change .
Including information on live and learn project to improve community based sanitation and hygiene.
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Tearchers guide on the principles of sustainable development and how to teach them. The past century has brought massive changes to
planet earth. Those born at the beginning of the
twenty first century have inherited a world that is
vastly different from those of their grandparents. As
of November 2008, the human population has soared
to over 6.7 billion people, an incredible number given
that the world population only first reached 3 billion
in 1961. The dramatic increase in population growth
has been accompanied by a rapid rise in the rate of
consumption of the worlds resources, made possible by
new technologies and wealth, particularly in developed
countries.
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