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

The Gathering Storm: Will Asia Pacific Cities Adapt to Climate Change?

Submitted by andrea on Wed, 2010-01-13 03:26
Author(s):
Joan Diamond, Peter Hayes, Jane Mullett, Felicity Roddick and Tim Savage
Year:
2007
City:
Ho Chi Minh City
Pages:
41
Summary:

This workshop, a joint activity of RMIT University’s Global Cities Institute and the Nautilus Institute at RMIT and in San Francisco, set out to explore how cities in the Asia-Pacific region might adapt to climate change, and in particular, whether they might collaborate with each other in ways that cannot be anticipated by states and might prove critical to successful adaptation. The workshop was held with the support of RMIT Vietnam on its campus in Ho Chi Minh City.

Climate Change and Technology Transfer: The Need for a Regional Perspective - Policy Brief No. 18

Submitted by andrea on Thu, 2010-01-07 09:29
Author(s):
Ivan Vera
Year:
July 2009
City:
New York
Publisher:
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Pages:
2
Summary:

UN-DESA Policy Brief features synopses of key policy analysis intended to frame issues, inform decisions and guide policy action in the economic, social and environmental arena.

This policy brief discusses climate change in relation to the importance of transferring technology from a regional perspective. Noting that, "Regional mechanisms that allow for pooling of resources and achieving economies of scale could provide a bridge between what global arrangements can offer and what developing countries need in terms of cost-effective action programmes tailored to their own context."

PRECIS - Providing Regional Climates for Impacts Studies

Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2009-06-05 19:49
Summary:
Background

PRECIS (Providing REgional Climates for Impacts Studies) was developed to help generate high-resolution climate change information for as many regions of the world as possible. This tool provides climate impact assessments in developing country contexts which are freely available to numerous users. The tool uses GCM (GCM) to provide grid-scale averages of spatio-temporal hydro-climatic state variables as well as soil hydrology and thermodynamics, and some vegetation dynamic variables.

ADAPT

Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2009-06-05 02:02
Summary:
Background

This computer-based tool is multi-sectoral and currently being tested in South Asia, soon expanding to a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. The tool undertakes a sensitivity analysis for specific projects and flags activities that are sensitive to climate change as well as gives advice on adaptation activities. The tool utilises project location and activity information which are screened through a project activity sensitivity matrix based on GCM data. The tool does not utilise specific vulnerability data or adaptation at the sectoral.