Social and economic assessments of climate change adaptation in the Pacific: Making informed choices

Abstract

In response to the increasing impact of climate change, countries in the Pacific have implemented a number of climate change adaptation measures over the last two decades. These range from activities that focus on mainstreaming climate change into national and sectoral level policies, plans and strategies to actual on the ground projects. This range of work implemented also includes a number of climate and weather related disaster risk management (DRM) initiatives and projects that may not explicitly been categorised as CCA (Figure 1).