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Global climate change and the significant impacts it can have on people’s lives are a major challenge for developing countries. Heavy floods, severe droughts and other weather extremes are examples of those impacts which call for building up capacity to …
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Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea …
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Cost-benefit analysis is a framework to assess the merits of an activity (project, policy) from the perspective of society (as opposed to a single individual). It involves: • measuring the gains and losses (benefits and costs) from an activity to the …
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Economic growth in Vanuatu has not matched the current population growth of 3% per annum. This high population growth rate, coupled with a rapid increase in the number of people migrating into the two main urban centres and increasing unemployment, is …
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Ralph Regenvanu is a Vanuatu Member of Parliament and Director of the Vanuatu National Cultural Council. This article is an edited version of a speech presented at “Pacific Islands and the World” Conference in Brisbane, 3 August 2009. The full speech is …
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Climate change, resulting from both natural and anthropogenic factors, is expected to affect virtually every aspect of marine ecosystem structure and function from community composition and biogeochemical cycling, to the prevalence of diseases. Climate can …
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Awareness DVD on Climate Change …
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Powerpoint presentation to promote awareness of impacts of climate change and practical adaptations. …
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Awareness posters on climate change.Each set 1,2 and 3 contains 4 to 10 different posters …
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Awareness poster on climate change that gives a brief information on climate change kit in the pacific. Vanuatu is among countries in the Pacific region that are most vulnerable to the risks of climate change, climate variability and sea level rise. The …
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Set of posters that guves awareness of climate change and its impacts and adaptations. …
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Multiple choice questions, crossword, wordsearch on aspects of climate change. …
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Drft report on likely impacts of climate change on the greater port vila area ,and strategies of urban planning to offset these impacts. The UN-Habitat Pacific Cities and Climate Change Initiative (CCCI) seeks to enhance climate change mitigation and …
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“The environment is precious and we should protect it like a mother hen protects its chicks. We should prevent deforestation, find solutions through actions that will prevent air pollution, and promote awareness to the people, particularly young people, …
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Leading scientists indicate that the global is changing. As a result extreme weather is increasing, average temperature is rising, patterns of dry and wet periods are shifting, and sea levels are rising. These effects impact on the vulnerability of …
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Set of 5 posters giving awareness of need to protect yourself & to protect the ozone layer …
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Awareness pamphlet on tropical cyclones …
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Vanuatu is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to natural hazards. Situated in the Pacific’s ‘ring of fire’ and ‘cyclone belt’, it regularly experiences volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, cyclones and at times tsunamis, drought and …