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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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This paper sets out a framework for ‘Risk Governance’ to help practitioners mainstream climate and disaster risk1 into development decision making in the Pacific. It is based largely on the experiences of testing this framework in the Pacific via the Pacific Risk Resilience Programme (PRRP). It aims to:
i) articulate the rationale for strengthening risk governance as the foundation for transformational and therefore more sustained risk mainstreaming;
ii) draw upon lessons and challenges from mainstreaming other cross-cutting issues;
iii) unpack the Risk Governance framework and its building blocks to provide practitioners with an approach to embedding risk into development policy and practice; and iv) provide some early experiences programming the building blocks of risk governance in the region.
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Tourism represents a significant econoomic activity in the Pacific. It is one of the largest export sectors in the majority of the nations of the Pacific and provides great opportunties for economic growth, employment, and sustainable development. Tourism is vulnerable to a range of risks including natural hazards, economic downturns, health epidemics, market fluctuations etc. Due to its highly climate sensitive nature, Pacific tourism is identifies as a hotspot for major impacts of cliamte change that will affect tourism destinations across the region and exacerbate natural hazards, markets, and other associated risks.
The community Tourism and Climate Change component of SPC-GIZ CCCPIR project aims to strengthen the capacity of selected Pacific Island countries to cope with climate change impacts and associated risks on the community tourism sector. The main activities being undertaken include:
-National consultation workshop for integrated stakeholder engagement accross the tourism, climate change, and natural disaster management areas;
- Mapping community tourism initiatives;
- Risk analysis and vulnerability assessment of selected community tourism initiatives;
- implementations of adaptation interventions in the seleced community tourism initiatives;
- Production of an adaptation manual for community tourism in the Pacific;
- National best practive workshop
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Assessment of weaknesses and opportunities regarding Port Vila's vulnerability to climate change and disaster risk.
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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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Outline key project components
Awareness raising / background work; this will involve seeking support from key ministries, establishing contacts, hiring a local project assistant, arranging venues, logistics and contacting participants.
Conducting focus groups; this involves bringing together 30-40 participants from targeted sectors to gather perceptual data with the assistance of a local facilitator.
Mobile Survey; an innovative mobile survey, the first of its kind in Vanuatu and the Pacific, will be implemented to survey participants. The mobile questionnaire is informed by the results of the focus groups and relies on awareness raising (all of which will be singularly about the survey and not climate change) through local radio, word of mouth, and posters to allow geographically remote participants to take part.
Dissemination of findings and results; once the data is analyzed and collected it will be distributed to all stakeholders to inform capacity building activities.
How will it be implemented?
Following intensive awareness raising and planning in conjunction with a local project assistant, the researchers (UNESCO + Apidae) will travel to Vanuatu to conduct focus groups in three sectors (education, media and conservation area communities), these will be two hour interactive discussions about climate change involving 30-40 people. The fieldwork will last one week including the promotion of the mobile phone based survey.
Will the project fund local positions? Where?
The project will require hiring a local Project Assistant for approx. 10 working days to prepare and conduct background work in preparation for the focus groups and mobile survey. A Terms of Reference for applicants will be circulated though local contacts and UNESCO’s National Commission.
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This guide responds to the emerging needs of many communities in the Pacific Islands whose members
are expressing concerns about storm damage, sea-level rise, and the frequency and severity of coastal
flooding events and shoreline erosion. For the purpose of the guide, the term “coastal zone” refers to
the entire area from the upland forest out to the reef edge. On small low-lying islands and atolls, the
entire island would be considered the coastal zone.
The term “coastal change” refers to:
1. Flooding of coastal lowlands from any, or combination, of the following: high (king) tides;
typhoons/cyclones/storms; large ocean swells; and heavy rainfall leading to storm water, river,
or stream flooding.
2. Gain or loss of land along the shoreline, which is the area of the coastal zone that directly
interacts with the sea and is changeable (e.g. sandy beaches, mangroves, cliffs).
With existing tools, communities have been able to identify the potential impacts of threats and
hazards to the coastal zone. However, understanding the complex interaction between natural coastal
systems and human development in order to determine effective responses often requires further
technical assistance, which is often not accessible.
Strategies to address the impacts of coastal erosion and flooding also tend to focus on reactive
approaches, normally through engineering projects such as building seawalls. In many cases, these
“solutions” have negatively impacted the surrounding environment and have increased conflicts with
other community values. Likewise, they are typically short-term in effectiveness, ignoring the role
inappropriate human development often plays as a key driver of the problem. Furthermore, these
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This guide is designed to support a community-based or local level management and adaptation planning
process. It can be used to explore the non-climate change and climate change threats within a defined
geographic area or community in which there is a clear governing structure and decision-making process.
The area can be large or small as long as the planning team involved in facilitating the process has decisionmaking
authority or has the support from the governing authority of the area. For example, the area might
be defined as a small coastal community that has land and sea tenure. Or, the area might be a small region
of the coastline with several communities that is governed by a central agency or group. However, this
tool is not designed for urbanized or densely populated areas with complex social and governance systems.
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Exercises relating to climate change.
Below are a large variety of exercises that can be used for inspiration to help shape your work on awareness raising in trainings, workshops, within communities, at schools or with (youth) volunteers.
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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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