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Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences

 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing  Aquaculture  Fisheries  Food security  Climate Change  Adaptation  Carbon  Climate change science  Impacts  Mitigation  Sea level rise  Health  Mental Health  Public health  Meteorology and Weather  Climate  Tides  Weather  Natural Resources and the Environment  Biodiversity  Coastal zone  Ecology and ecosystems  Oceans  Reefs  Water  Water security

Ocean warming may well turn out to be the greatest hidden challenge of our generation. This report represents the most comprehensive review to date on ocean warming. To build up the report, leading scientists from around the world were invited to join with colleagues to contribute individual chapters.  It contains many recommendations from the scientists on capability gaps and research issues that need to be resolved if we are to tackle the impacts of ocean warming with greater confidence in the future.

Food Security Impact of Agricultural Technology Adoption Under Climate Change

 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing  Agriculture  Climate Change  Social Development  Civil society

Report assessing farmers' incentives and the conditioning factors that hinder or promote adoption of agricultural techniques under climate risk and evaluate its impact on food security in Niger.

DEVELOPMENT IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND MIGRATION IN THE PACIFIC

 Climate Change  Climate change science  Climate projections  Economics and Finance  Climate finance  Economic development  Economics  Low carbon development  Sustainable development  Government, law and administration  Climate negotiations  Governance  International agreements  Law and regulation  Policy and planning  Social Development  Civil society  Gender  Human rights

In the years to come, climate-related shocks and trends will amplify the challenges and risks of displacement for the people of the Pacific. In this context, this paper analyses the opposite perceptions of the migration process in the Pacific from the main receiving countries in the region (Fiji, Australia and New Zealand). This is explored through a hybrid approach employed in the postulation of a legal framework, which would attempt to create a balance of interest between the migrants and the receiving countries articulated on socio-economic and environmental parameters.

National Sustainable Development Plan

 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing  Climate Change  Culture and Traditional Knowledge  Disaster Risk Management  Resilience  Economics and Finance  Sustainable development  Education and Training  Employment  Health  Human Settlements  Natural Resources and the Environment  Security and Conflict  Social Development  Civil society

Vanuatu 2030 is our National Sustainable Development Plan for the period 2016 to 2030, and serves as the country's highest level policy framework. It is founded on our culture, traditional knowledge and Christian principles, and builds on our development journey since Independence in 1980. We have already achieved a great deal,as we have encountered many difficulties and setbacks, some from natural disasters. Our most recent national plan, the Prioritiesand Action Agenda 2006-2015 sought to deliver a just, educated, healthy and wealthy Vanuatu.

Submission by the Republic of Vanuatu to the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement

 Climate Change  Economics and Finance  Education and Training  Information Technology and Information Management  Social Development  Civil society  Gender  Women  Youth

The document contains the Republic of Vanuatu's submission to the Ad-hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement, specifically on the Annual Focus Area for the Paris Committee on Capacity-building (PCCB). The document contains statements on gender and youth and includes sections about civil society organisations and the Government. It also outlines ways forward and next steps.

Yumi Stap Redi long Klaemet Jenis: Ex-post Evaluation Report of the Vanuatu NGO Climate Change Adaptation Program

 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing  Climate Change  Adaptation  Resilience  Disaster Risk Management  Disaster preparedness  Disaster risk reduction  Resilience  Vulnerability  Human Settlements  Rural settlements  Social Development  Civil society  Gender  Water

The Vanuatu NGO Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) Program (the program), locally known as Yumi stap redi long Klaemet Jenis, began in July 2012 and was completed in December 2014.