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… an assessment team led by Ms Luanne Losi, Acting Manager, Adaptation Branch, Climate Change Development Authority … Vanuatu PACRES is scaling up adaptation pilots including ecosystem-based adaptation. These are the five Pacific ACP … • Scoping missions and community consultations to progress ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) pilots in Savaii, Samoa, and …

… in Asia and the Pacific scale up investments in climate adaptation, especially investments at the community level, … • The CRPP responds to the COP26 goal of scaling up adaptation to protect communities and natural habitats, and … • Community-based forest management and adaptation • Ecosystem-based adaptation in urban informal settlements • …

It is 2020 and the world is at a crossroads on climate change. The Paris Agreement aims to limit global warming to 1.5ºC–2ºC above preindustrial temperatures. Current international climate responses will not meet these targets. Thus, urgent and widespread action is indispensable. Recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports showed a significant difference in the degree of impact between 1.5ºC and 2ºC of warming. Indeed, the 1.5ºC goal is the safest for most of Asia and the Pacific.

Over the past year, we have seen how technology has continuously allowed us to bridge the gap between the vast oceans that divide us during these uncertain times. Numerous climate change trainings, workshops, launches, conferences, and webinars were made possible through hybrid approaches, where participants joined both in-person and online. This approach has allowed us to not only stay connected and engaged, but to maximise our reach on important issues.

… Ecosystems for resilience Enabling community-led adaptation: Five key insights from Guatemala and India P ol … enabling and hindering factors for the implementation of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA). We are also grateful to …

… or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar … and the first place anywhere in the world to be inscribed based on its natural heritage values and its protection under … Simon Albert et  al, Survey of the Condition of the Marine Ecosystem within the East Rennell World Heritage Area, …

… FEBRUARY 2022 is a low-cost and high-bene�t climate adaptation measure WASH outcomes Access to appropriate and … harvesting desalination accessing deeper groundwater Ecosystem based adaptationMANAGED RETREAT Some small-island communities …

Nature loss is at the heart of many societal challenges, while nature-based solutions hold the potential to address interlinked crises. The pace of species extinction, global warming the growing number of extreme weather events and zoonotic diseases like covid19, have further reinforced the need to invest in sustainable action and enhances the resilience of ecosystems and addresses societal challenges, such as food security, climate change, water security, human health and enhanced resilience to disaster risk.

… by western countries and wide implementation of climate adaptation, a co-author of the lates report from the … (FFEM) have signed an agreement to fund the Pacific Ecosystem-based Adaptation to Climate Change Plus (PEBACC+) Project, the …

Coral reefs face threats from climate change and local pressures, but many initiatives designed to deliver conservation outcomes for them and the social-economic system they support are limited by sustainable finance and the availability of funds over the long term.