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Combating Climate Change in the Pacific: Regional Governance, agency and dependency

McDuie-Ra, Duncan

Williams, Marc

From the perspective of Pacific island states and territories (PICTs) much of the intense speculation and debate over climate policy seems irrelevant and immature given the oft-repeated warnings of the severe consequences for low-lying islands and atoll countries of climate change. The Pacific is not just any region when it comes to climate change but rather, as Farbotko (2010) argues, is an experimental space of climate change canaries. The position of the Pacific at the frontline of climate change has spurred voluminous research, however studies of the politics of climate change within the region is limited, particularly with regard to and regional processes. This paper explores the regional politics of climate change in the Pacific. Within the grand architecture of global climate governance, the region provides compelling new insights into the ways climate change is constructed, governed, and shaped byand in turn shapesregional and global climate politics. Through an exploration of regional governance as a strategy by which small vulnerable states respond to urgent crises, the paper explores both the potential and the limitations of collective action on environmental issues following the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris 2015. We argue that evolving regional governance on climate change is mobilizing resources and finance to combat climate change. On the surface it appears to be a successful manifestation of solidarity among states and territories facing a shared fate. This solidarity has been institutionalized in three key regional organizations that mobilize resources climate change action through distinct policy narratives about the place of the Pacific in global climate crisis. These organizations also distribute these resources to members. As a result climate finance in the Pacific is mostly generated by multilateral rather than bilateral donors. However, despite this apparent demonstration of regional agency, beneath the surface regional climate governance is heavily dependent on donors for finance and expertise. This exposes a dual vulnerability of PICTs. They are extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change while also being extremely vulnerable to growing dependencies on donors to address these impacts.

Commonwealth Marine Economies Programme. Pacific Marine Climate Change Report Card 2018.

Lefale P; Diamond H; Anderson C...[et al]

Why is this report card of relevance to me? This report card provides an easy to read, scientifically robust summary of what we know about marine and coastal climate change impacts in the Pacific, and explores some of the actions that are needed to respond toi these impacts. It can be used as evidence to support policy, programmed and project development and is relevant to the following key initiatives.

Pacific marine climate change report card 2018.

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Brodie, Gilianne

Buckley, Paul

Goyet, Sylvie

Hills, Jeremy

Moore, Tommy

Pringle, Patrick

Seuseu, Sunny

Singh, Awnesh

Straza,Tiffany

Townhill, Bryony

This CMEP report provides a summary of climate change impacts on coasts and seas in the Pacific island region, and how Pacific islands can respond.

Climate Change Matters. Issue 62, January-July 2018.

SPREP Publications, Climate Change Resilience

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Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)

This issue highlights a series of stories from the Pacific on climate change. Featuring the multimillion dollar project for Vanuatu, readiness support for FSM and Niue and of course ongoing capacity development around the region including Fiji to name a few.

Ecosystems, climate change and development scenarios, Port Vila, Vanuatu

Climate Change Resilience, Island and Ocean Ecosystems

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Archie, Kelli M

Blaschke, Paul M.

Gual, Carles Martinez-Almoyna

Jackson, Bethanna

Komugabe-Dixson, Aimee

Livesey, Chris

Loubser, Dave

Maxwell, Deb

Rastandeh, Amin

Renwick, James

Weaver, Sean

Zari, Maibritt Pedersen

The current study continues the PEBACC project in Vanuatu. It builds on an earlier PEBACC study that undertook a baseline ecosystem and socio-economic resilience analysis and mapping appraisal of the Port Vila Metropolitan area. The methodology approach adopted provided for mainly desk-top review work, supplemented by four key workshops (including one in Port Vila), interviews with Port Vila stakeholders, and brief field inspection in Port Vila.

A tamaliki ko gaasue!: se tala ni mafulifuliga o tau o aso = The children take action! : a climate change story = Aia botumwaka ma aia kakamwakuri ataei

Climate Change Resilience, Island and Ocean Ecosystems

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Deo, Seema

Kylie, Jayne

The climate change story for children to take action.

Background information: Climate change education coping with climate change in the Pacific island region

Climate Change Resilience

CCCPIR

Developing climate change information for the Pacific : guidance material to raise awareness and facilitate sectoral decision-making using science-based climate change information and services

Climate Change Resilience

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Small island developing states (SIDS) are among the most vulnerable to our changing climate. People living in the western tropical Pacific SIDS are already experiencing higher temperatures, shifts in rainfall patterns, rising sea levels and changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme climate events. Further changes on top of an existing, naturally variable climate are expected long into the future because of global warming. These changes in the climate have far-reaching consequences that will affect communities and the built and natural environment. At a national level, sectors that will be impacted include health, infrastructure, water, energy, tourism, food (fisheries, agriculture), natural resources (forestry, biodiversity) and disaster risk management. To deal with these changes, Pacific SIDS need credible, useful and accessible scientific information to inform decision-making at a sectoral level about what drives the climate in the Pacific, how it may change in the future and what the impact of these changes might be.

Will climate change impact the potential distribution of a native vine (Merremia peltata) which is behaving invasively in the Pacific region?

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Kumar, Lalit

Taylor, Subhashni

Merremia peltata is a species with uncertain status in the island nations of the Pacific region. It has been designated introduced and invasive in some countries whereas it is considered native in others. Recent increase in its abundance across some island landscapes have led to calls for its designation as an invasive species of environmental concern with biological control being suggested as a control strategy. Climate change will add to the complications of managing this species since changes in climate will influence its range limits. In this study, we develop a process-oriented niche model of M. peltata using CLIMEX to investigate the impacts of climate change on its potential distribution. Information on the climatic requirements of M. peltata and its current geographic distribution were used to calibrate the model. The results indicate that under current climate, 273,132 km2 of the land area in the region is climatically unsuitable or marginal for M. peltata whereas 664,524 km2 is suitable to highly suitable. Under current climate, areas of climatic suitability for M. peltata were identified on the archipelagos of Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. By the end of the century, some archipelagos like Fiji, Hawaii, New Caledonia and Vanuatu will probably become more suitable while PNG and Solomon Islands become less suitable for M. peltata. The results can be used to inform biosecurity planning, management and conservation strategies on islands.

Pacific aims to up influence in fight against climate change

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Nihmei, Salesa

The Pacific's environmental agency is looking to increase the region's input into climate change decisions made at a global level. SPREP is co-hosting a workshop in Samoa with the Australian scientific research body, the CSIRO, to develop a regional strategy for climate research. Considering the direct impact of a warming planet and a changing environment on Pacific countries, the region has had little input into climate change negotiations at the United Nations or Intergovernmental Panel. SPREP's meteorology and climate officer Salesa Nihmei says this workshop aims to change that. Mr Nihmei told Dominic Godfrey that key regional stakeholders are in Apia to work on a research strategy that will benefit the global fight against climate change.

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