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It's called the "elevator to extinction." Bird species in Papua New Guinean mountains are getting pushed farther and farther up to escape rising temperatures that may make it impossible for some of them to survive in the future. Species already living at …
Media Summit: Presentation day was excruciating for all of us says student - See more at: http://www.pacmas.org/blog-post/media-summit-presentation-day-was-excruciating-for-all-of-us-says-student/#sthash.DzgOoTLY.dpuf …
Vanuatu Pacific-German SPC-GIZ Regional Coping with Climate Change in the Pacific Island Region Program Pacific-German Regional Programme on Coping with Climate Change in the Pacific Island Region FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Havannah Harbour Stakeholders Gear …
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Havannah Harbour tourism stakeholders, the Nothwest Efate Area Council and local communities are joining hands to run an innovative campaign to minimize the effects of waste and climate change on the local tourism industry. …
The Pacific German Regional Programme Coping with Climate Change in the Pacific Island Region (CCCPIR) aims at strengthening capacities of Pacific Island Countries and regional organisations to adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change. The …
Prepared by FAO consultant Hoffman Sandy Mael Port Vila, Vanuatu September 2013 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Subregional Office for the Pacific Islands CLIMATE CHANGE AND AGRICULTURE IN VANUATU: A study of crops and farming …
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Vanuatu is identified as one of the most disaster prone countries in the Pacific region. Comprising a national population of 250,000; the country regularly experience natural disasters like flooding, volcanic eruptions, landslides, cyclones, sea level …
Emilia Pramova and Bruno Locatelli Guidebook on integrating community- based adaptation into REDD+ projects Lessons from Indonesia and the Philippines Em ilia Pram ova and Bruno Locatelli G uidebook on integrating com m unity-based adaptation into RED D + …
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Efforts to tackle climate change are often divided into mitigation approaches and adaptation approaches. Given that mitigation is usually a global priority and adaptation a local priority, practitioners and planners may find it difficult to bridge the …
Although many NGOs are working to reach the UN’s Millennium Development Goals by 2015, we still have over 1 billion people suffering from hunger, a lack of safe drinking water, and extreme poverty. An important underlying cause of these challenges is …
Minimum Standards for local climate‐smart disaster risk reduction …
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Climate change is increasing the risk of extreme events and disasters.1 While disaster risk reduction (DRR) offers an important opportunity to adapt to current climate variability, in order to be successful, DRR efforts must also take into …
Griffith University Coastal Hazard Management Short Course - Early Bird Registration ends 1 of March
eminder to register to the Griffith Coastal Hazard Management Short Course, Early bird registration ends on 1 of March : After a successful Coastal Hazard Management Short Course held in 2013 with more than 40 participants from local government, …
Talofa colleagues Please find attached SPREP’s Climate Change Matters Newsletter for February 2014. Interesting articles in this month’s edition: · Climate and Disaster Resilient Development in the Pacific · Climate Change Resilience …
INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE INITIATIVE Regional project Climate Protection through Forest Conservation in Pacific Island Countries Vanuatu: Legal Framework for REDD+ January 2013 Vanuatu: Legal Framework for REDD+ 2 SPC/GIZ Regional REDD+ Project Prepared by: …
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The GIZ project “Climate Protection through Forest Conservation in Pacific Island Countries” has produced a report on the existing legal framework in Vanuatu with regards to REDD+. This is a direct follow-up from the Vanuatu carbon rights study …
The Land Resources Division of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community is pleased to announce that the Youth in Agriculture Blog Competition (YoBloco) Awards have received 11 blog submissions from the Pacific region! Compared to the first edition of the …
To all participant,thank you for participating and making this workshop successful. As for the way forward it was decided that we form a Community Based Disaster risk reduction and Climate change working group,the objective of this working group is to: …