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Garnaut Climate Change Review - Update 2011. Update Paper two: Progress towards effective global action on climate change

Climate Change Resilience

Garnaut, Ross

The threat of climate change to prosperity in one country cannot be removed by the actions of that country alone. Effective action to moderate the risks of human-induced climate change requires large contributions to reductions in emissions from all major countries, and substantial contributions from the rest of the world as well.

Garnaut Climate Change Review - Update 2011. Update Paper three: Global emissions trends

Climate Change Resilience

Garnaut, Ross

This update paper re-examines likely trends in global emissions in the absence of effective mitigation and in the absence of major feedbacks from climate change to economic growth. It analyses changes in the variables affecting emissions growth (namely population, economic output, energy demand, and the economic and technological factors affecting the choice among sources of energy) in major countries and regions. It explores the implications of the Great Crash of 2008, which lowered the long-term growth trajectory of developed countries, but did not slow the immense growth momentum of the largest developing countries, nor end the higher growth of the early twenty first century in other developing countries.

Garnaut Climate Change Review - Update 2011. Update Paper four: Transforming rural land use

Climate Change Resilience

Garnaut, Ross

Australia has always been a country of climate extremes. The health of Australian farming will continue to depend on effective management of weather and climate uncertainty. It is increasingly clear that the world is moving towards more rapid and severe climate change. The science is telling us that climate change will be associated with significant warming, which will change optimal planting and harvesting times and the crops, cultivars and animal types that do well in each region. It will reduce water run-off even if there is no general effect on rainfall, and so reduce water available from rivers and streams for irrigation. It is likely to increase the intensity of extreme events: heatwaves and associated bushfires; cyclones in tropical regions; episodes of exceptionally high rainfall; and drough. The impacts of accelerating climate change will intensify the climatic challenge to rural Australia. The scientific evidence is considered in Update Paper five.

Pacific Ecosystem-based Adaptation to Climate Change (PEBACC) Newsletter - Issue 1 (October 2016)

Island and Ocean Ecosystems

Available Online

PEBACC

This quarterly newsletter is an initiative to share information on Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA), a pragmatic and sustainable option for securing resilience in social and ecological systems impacted by climate change.

Garnaut Climate Change Review - Update 2011: Australia in the Global Response to Climate Change. Summary

Climate Change Resilience

Garnaut, Ross

The Garnaut Climate Change Review was commissioned by the Commonwealth, state and territory governments in 2007 to conduct independent study of the impacts of climate change on the Australian economy. I presented the Garnaut Climate Change Review: Final Report to the Australian Prime Minister, Premiers and Chief Ministers in September 2008 in which I examined how Australia was likely to be affected by climate change, and suggested policy responses. In November 2010, I was commissioned by the Australian Government to provide an updated to the 2008 review. In particular, I was asked to examine whether significant changes had occurred that would affect the analysis and recommendations from 2008.

Climate Change and Pacific Island Food Systems - The future of food, farming and fishing in the Pacific islands under a changing climate

Climate Change Resilience, Island and Ocean Ecosystems

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Amos, Moses

Andrew, Neil

Bell, Johann

Taylor, Mary

The food systems of the Pacific region are undergoing massive changes that will be felt for generations to come. Profound changes need to be applied to the food systems in order to deal with challenges such as rapid population growth, urbanisation and the importing of cheap, but nutritionally poor, foods. These challenges are causing some of the highest levels of obesity and non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes, in the world. This booklet puts forward a set of contrasting scenarios that summarise the most important and uncertain drivers of change. The scenarios can be used to develop and test policies, plans and strategies for the future and encourage the necessary investments to support adaptation to agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture.

Bird surveys of Late and Fonualei Islands, Vava'u, Kingdom of Tonga : September 2013 - Report to Ministry of Lands, Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resources (MLECCNR)

Climate Change Resilience, Island and Ocean Ecosystems, BRB

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Dr. Butler, David J.

GEF-PAS

The survey team were able to spend 3 days on Fonualei Island and two days on Late with support from a Vavau based fishing boat and checked several areas not visited during the previous 2003 and 2004 scientific surveys. We identified that the Polynesian megapode (malau) Megapodius pritchardii continues to survive in good numbers on Fonualei, locating good numbers in a new area suggesting the total population may be close to 1000. We did not located malau on Late and concluded that there is very little chance that they survive on this island. Both islands are important refuges for Tongan bird species with Fonualei Island of greater significance for malau, and seabirds which nest there in their thousands, and Late Island having a greater variety of landbirds including the endemic Samoan whistler Pachycephala jacquinoti.

SPREP: Pacifics united voice can help mitigate climate change

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Moore, Tommy

Radio NZ

SPREP

A spokesperson from the Secretariat for the Pacific Regional Environment Programme says the Paris Agreement represents a great first step in the global commitment to addressing climate change. However, SPREP's Dr Tommy Moore says there is still a lot more that needs to be done to achieve that goal. Last year's Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation came into effect on Friday 4 November. It aims to arrest the global economy's addiction to fossil fuels and limit a rise in average world temperatures to "well below" 2 degrees celsius above pre-industrial times. Dr Moore spoke with Dominic Godfrey about how Pacific countries can continue to lobby for change using their united voice.

Climate Change Implications for Fisheries and Aquaculture - Overview of current scientific knowledge

Climate Change Resilience

Bahri, Tarûb (ed.)

Cochrane, Kevern (ed.)

De Young, Cassandra (ed.)

Soto, Doris (ed.)

An overview of the current scientific knowledge available on climate change implications for fisheries and aquaculture is provided through three technical papers that were presented and discussed during the Expert Workshop on Climate Change Implications for Fisheries and Aquaculture. A summary of the workshop outcomes as well as key messages on impacts of climate change on aquatic ecosystems and fisheries - and aquaculture-based livelihoods are provided in the introduction of this Technical Paper. The first paper reviews the physical and ecological impacts of climate change relevant to marine and inland capture fisheries and aqauculture. The paper begins with a review of the physical impacts of climate change on marine and freshwater systems and then connects these changes with observed effects on fish production processes. It also outlines a series of scenarios of climate change impacts on fish production and ecosystems through case studies in different regions and ecosystems. The second paper tackles the consequences of climate change impacts on fisheries and their dependent communities. It analyses the exposure, sensitivity and vulnerability of fisheries to climate change and presents examples of adaptive mechanisms currently used in the sector. The contribution of fisheries to greenhouse gas emissions is addressed and examples of mitigation strategies are given. The role of public policy and institutions in promoting climate change adaptation and mitigation is also explored. Finally, the third paper addresses the impacts of climate change on aquaculture. It provides an overview of the current food fish and aquaculture production and a synthesis of existing studies on climate change effects on aquaculture and fisheries. The paper focuses on the direct and indirect impacts of climate change on aquaculture, in terms of biodiversity, fish disease and fishmeal. Contribution of agriculture to climate change is addressed and mitigation measures that could be implemented.

Project Brief - Institutional strengthening in Pacific Island countries to adapt to climate change (ISACC)

Climate Change Resilience, Island and Ocean Ecosystems

Pacific Community (SPC)

Project Brief on ISACC

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