PACC Pacific Climate Change Roundtable Presentation, 17th Mar 2011

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Seven of the 13 PACC member countries presented at the Pacific Climate Change Roundtable (PCCR) in Alofi, Niue on the 17th March, 2011 at the Millenium Hall.

Funding Source:
GEF-SCCF

South Pacific Sea Level and Climate Monitoring Project

  • Project details

  • Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
    Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Geoscience Australia, SOPAC (Fiji), SPREP (Samoa), Per Participating Country: National Meteorological Services, Lands and Survey Organizations, Environmental Planning and Management Agencies, Ports and Harbor Authorities, Fisheries and Agricultural Departments, Educational Institutions
    Summary:

    BACKGROUND:

    The South Pacific Sea Level and Climate Monitoring Project (SPSLCMP) was developed in 1991 as an Australian Government response to concerns raised by member countries of the South Pacific Forum over the potential impacts of human-induced global warming on climate and sea levels in the Pacific region.

    Its primary goal is to generate an accurate record of variance in long-term sea level for the South Pacific and to establish methods to make these data readily available and usable by Pacific Island countries.

    The first three phases of the project established a network of 12

    Contacts:

    AusAID Contacts:
    Brian Dawson
    Email: brian.dawson@ausaid.gov.au

    Paul Mitchell
    Email: paul.mitchell@ausaid.gov.au

    Project Status:
    Under Implementation, 2006
    Primary Beneficiaries:
    Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
    Project Details
    Funding Source:
    AusAid
    Cofinancing Total:
    N/A
    Total Amounts:
    $9,000,000

Pacific RANET (Radio and Internet Communications)

  • Project details

  • Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
    US NOAA OGP, US NOAA NWS, USAID, MetService of New Zealand Ltd., NZAID, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, AusAID, and UK Met Office
    Summary:

    A multi-donor funded feasibility project for all Pacific Development Member Countries, conducted in 2004 and 2005; the planned project was to increase the accessibility of weather, climate and hydro-meteorological related information through the use of radio, including information to assist remote and resource poor populations for their day-to-day resource decisions and preparations related to natural hazards

     

    Project Status:
    Completed (2004-2005)
    Project Details
    Funding Source:
    AusAid
    NZAid
    USAid
    Cofinancing Total:
    no information available

Regional - Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change Project (PACC)

Individual Projects:
Executing Agency:
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
Implementing Agency:
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Summary:

Description

This project (PACC ) will implement long-term adaptation measures to increase the resilience of a number of key development sectors in the Pacific islands to the impacts of climate change. This objective will be achieved by focusing on adaptation response strategies, policies and measures to bring about this result.

The key development sectors this project will focus on are:

Project Components:
  1. National adaptive capacity developed
  2. Community vulnerability to climate change reduced
  3. Technical assistance & Regional Cooperation
Expected Outputs:
  • 1.1 Technical capacity of key decision makers developed
  • 1.2 Institutional coordination mechanisms established
  • 1.3 Tools to assess economic costs of adaptation developed and utilized
  • 1.4 Legislative and policy directives prepared and adopted

Pilot adaptation project implemented in:

  • 2.1 Coastal management in the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Samoa, Tokelau and Vanuatu
  • 2.2 Managing climate change risks in community based agricultural practices Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Palau and Solomon Islands
  • 2.3 Climate change resilient water management practices at the community level in Nauru, Niue, Tonga, Marshall Islands and Tuvalu
  • 3.1 Technical guidance provided for implementation of national adaptatio
  • 3.2 Best practices and lessons exchanged among countries through SPREP
  • 3.3 Project website established at SPREP
Project Status:
Under Implementation
Primary Beneficiaries:
Local communities in the 14 Pacific Island Countries
Funding Source:
GEF-SCCF
Financing Amount:
13,475,000
Cofinancing Total:
44,503,799 [Cofinancing Total (CEO Endo.)]
Total Amounts:
57,978,799
Contacts:
  • Mr Taito Nakalevu
  • Regional Project Manager, Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) Project
  • Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
  • Email: taiton@sprep.org
  • Phone: +685 21 929 ext 252
  • Fax: +685 20 231
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PAS Coastal and Marine Resources Management in the Coral Triangle of the Pacific - under the Pacific Alliance for Sustainability Program

  • Project details

  • Implementing Agency:
    Asian Development Bank
    Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
    n/a
    Summary:

     The Coral Triangle (CT) is the center of the world's coral reef diversity, holding more than 75% of the known coral species and about 3000 species of reef fish among other reef flora and fauna. These resources directly provide livelihoods for more than 20 million people and are the spawning grounds for the world's most valuable tuna fishery while supporting a robust and growing marine tourism industry.

    Project Components:

    * Marine Conservation * Enabling Environment * Building marine resource and community resilience * Management for resilience * Improved MMAs network planning and effectiveness * Sustainable financing * Coordination and Harmonization * Watershed and Coastal resources (Ridge to Reef) Management * Legal and policy framework

    Expected Outputs:

    In targeting the development of broad-scale resilience strategies (social, economic and biological), this project is innately designed to reduce vulnerability to various forms of risk including the impacts of climate change.

    Contacts:

    D. McCauley
    GEF Agency Coordinator
    Telephone: 632-632-4161
    Email: dmccauley@adb.org

    Project Status:
    Approved
    Primary Beneficiaries:
    n/a
    Project Details
    Funding Source:
    ADB
    GEF-Trust Fund
    Financing Amount:
    24,936,000
    Cofinancing Total:
    16,350,000
    Total Amounts:
    24,986,000