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FORTY-SEVENTH PACIFIC ISLANDS FORUM

 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing  Fisheries  Food security  Climate Change  Adaptation  Climate change science  Greenhouse gases  Impacts  Resilience  Risks  Culture and Traditional Knowledge  Cultural heritage and preservation  Disaster Risk Management  Disaster management  Disaster preparedness  Disaster relief  Disaster risk  Disaster risk reduction  Hazard  Resilience  Economics and Finance  Sustainable development  Government, law and administration  Climate negotiations  Panels and working groups  Policy and planning  Health  Disease prevention and control  Meteorology and Weather  Climate  Natural Resources and the Environment  Oceans  Social Development  Human rights  Poverty  Social services

The Forty-Seventh Pacific Islands Forum was held in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia from 8 – 10 September 2016 and was attended by Heads of State and Government of Australia, the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Nauru, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. The Solomon Islands was represented by their Deputy Prime Minister, the Republic of Fiji, Niue and the Republic of Palau by their Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Kiribati by a Special Envoy.

PARTneR: Pacific Tool Design

 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing  Agriculture  Crops  Food security  Climate Change  Loss and damage  Resilience  Risks  Culture and Traditional Knowledge  Traditional knowledge  Disaster Risk Management  Cyclone  Disaster management  Disaster response  Disaster risk  Health  Public health  Sanitation  Human Settlements  Land use  Urban planning  Urban settlements  Industry  Information Technology and Information Management  Geographical information systems  Information management  Meteorology and Weather  Rainfall  Temperature  Natural Resources and the Environment  Conservation  Soils  Vegetation  Population and Demographics  Demography  Security and Conflict  Security  Social Development  Social services  Water  Water quality  Water treatment

Pacific Tool for Resilience 

PARTneR will enable Pacific government Ministries and stakeholder organisation to effectively developed and used risk-based information to support development decision making on DRR & DRM

PARTneR will tailor RiskScape, a disaster impact mapping and modelling software developed jointly with New Zealand NIWA and GNS science. 

The Project Profile Form - Integrating Flood and Drought Management and Early Warning for Climate Change Resilience in the Pacific Islands

 Climate Change  Economics and Finance  Education and Training  Health  Industry  Tourism  Natural Resources and the Environment  Social Development  Social services

The Project Profile Form - Integrating Flood and Drought Management and Early Warning for Climate Change Resilience in the Pacific Islands

The Project Profile Form - Integrating Flood and Drought Management and Early Warning for Climate Change Resilience in the Pacific Islands

 Climate Change  Economics and Finance  Education and Training  Health  Industry  Tourism  Natural Resources and the Environment  Social Development  Social services

The Project Profile Form - Integrating Flood and Drought Management and Early Warning for Climate Change Resilience in the Pacific Islands

PRE-CONCEPT FOR A REGIONAL PROJECT/PROGRAMME

 Climate Change  Economics and Finance  Education and Training  Health  Industry  Tourism  Natural Resources and the Environment  Social Development  Social services

PRE-CONCEPT FOR A REGIONAL PROJECT/PROGRAMME  - for the Integrating Flood and Drought Management and Early Warning for Climate Change Resilience in the Pacific Islands project.

(Adaptation fund)

Gender and Social Inclusion - National Disability Inclusive Development Policy 2018-2025

 Social Development  Gender  Human rights  Social conditions  Social services  Women  Youth

Persons with disabilities include those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual, or
sensory impairments, which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and
effective participation in society on an equal basis with others.5 Disability may be experienced
by people of any age – children, young and older people.

NATIONAL CYCLONE SUPPORT PLAN REVIEW 2015-2016

 Climate Change  Adaptation  Impacts  Resilience  Disaster Risk Management  Disaster management  Disaster preparedness  Disaster relief  Disaster response  Disaster risk  Disaster risk reduction  Loss and damage  Employment  Working conditions  Government, law and administration  Climate negotiations  Governance  Organisations  Policy and planning  Information Technology and Information Management  Geographical information systems  Meteorology and Weather  Atmosphere  Climate  Meteorology  Rainfall  Temperature  Tides  Weather

The annual cyclone season for the Republic of Vanuatu commences in November and extends to the end of April the following year. While cyclones can develop outside of this period, their cyclical nature increases the predictability of such occurrences and thus enables pre-planned measures to be formulated beforehand and community preparedness programmes to be put in place and promulgated.

DANY AND ROUROU: apprennent `a luter contre le changement climatique

 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing  Agriculture  Aquaculture  Crops  Deforestation  Fisheries  Forestry  Livestock  Climate Change  Adaptation  Carbon  Carbon sequestration  Climate change science  Climate projections  Greenhouse gases  Impacts  Loss and damage  Mitigation  Resilience  Risks  Sea level rise  Culture and Traditional Knowledge  Cultural heritage and preservation  Traditional knowledge  Disaster Risk Management  Disaster management  Disaster relief  Disaster risk reduction  Drought  Loss and damage  Economics and Finance  Low carbon development  Education and Training  Adult education  Community education  Primary education  Schools  Secondary education  Teachers and teaching  Tertiary education  Vocational education  Energy  Emission reduction  Emissions  Government, law and administration  Climate negotiations  Governance  Human Settlements  Land use  Urban settlements  Meteorology and Weather  Atmosphere  Climate  Rainfall  Temperature  Tides  Weather  Natural Resources and the Environment  Biodiversity  Coastal zone  Conservation  Degradation  Ecology and ecosystems  Habitat restoration  Inland waters  Islands  Oceans  Pollution

Le changement climatique est l'un des sujets dont on parle le plus dans le monde parce  qu'll affecte le quotidien de tous les habitants de la planete, y compris ceux qui vivent dans les iles du pacifique. Les scientifiques disent que lechangement climatique pourrait rendre les saisons chaudes plus longues et amener beacoup de pluies durant la saison humide.

Ozone Layer Protection (Amendment) Act 2014

 Meteorology and Weather  Atmosphere  Natural Resources and the Environment  Air quality

An Act to control  ozone  depleting substances in Vanuatu in accordance with the obligations applying under the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the  Ozone  Layer and the Montreal Protocol, and for related purposes.

Sections outlined in the previous Ozone Layer Protection Act 2010 as follows:

Vanuatu Coastal Adaptation Project AWS Installation - Report on project completion

 Meteorology and Weather  Atmosphere  Climate  Meteorology  Rainfall  Snow and ice  Temperature  Weather  Technology

The Ministry for Climate Change Adaptation, Meteorology, Geo-Hazards, Environment, Energy and Disaster Management, Government of Vanuatu, contracted NIWA (The National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research Ltd.) for the ‘Supply, delivery and installation of Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) in six different locations in Vanuatu’ (SC G02).

Climate Action

 Climate Change  Disaster Risk Management  Meteorology and Weather  Atmosphere  Climate  Meteorology  Rainfall  Snow and ice  Temperature  Tides  Weather

Vanuatu Climate Future Portal - Brochure

 Climate Change  Climate models  Climate projections  Meteorology and Weather  Atmosphere  Climate  Meteorology  Rainfall  Temperature  Tides  Weather  Technology  Technology Transfer

 The Vanuatu Klaetmet Infomesen Blong Ready, Adapt mo Protekt (Van-KIRAP) Project is developing and delivering climate data, information,decision support tools and associated knowledge products in the form of climate inofrmation services to raise climate awareness and guide decision-making for a range of key stakeholders in Vanuatu.

The climate information services are relevent services are relevant across multiple time scales including current and future climate, and relate to five priority sectors: infrastructure, water, agriculture, fisheries, and tourism.