Climate Change, Disasters and Risks Publications

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        Effects of Climate Change on Mangroves

        Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications

        Pacific island mangroves include the world’s centre of mangrove biodiversity in Papua New Guinea, and extend east through all countries and territories as far as the Marshall Islands and...
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        Effects of Climate Change on Sea Levels and Inundation

        Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications

        This report focuses on marine/coastal inundation and sea level and how they are affected by climate change. The region of interest is the Pacific Islands, with a focus on Commonwealth...
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        Effects of Climate Change on Corals Relevant to the Pacific Islands

        Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications

        This paper discuss impacts of climate change on corals according to standardized metrics. It also deals with non-climate drivers because of the synergistic effects they have with climate...
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        Pacific Marine Climate Change Report Card 2018

        Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications

        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.
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        Climate Change Impacts on Migratory Species

        Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications

        This study, commissioned by the UNEP/CMS Secretariat, aims to identify how climate change is likely to affect individual migratory species, and the degree of threat that they face.
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        Legal Frameworks for Ecosystem-Based Adaptation to Climate Change in the Pacific Islands

        Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications

        This report is primarily directed to analyzing the legal aspects of ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change. It sketches the impacts of climate change in the Pacific Island...
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        Climate Change and Invasive Species in the Pacific

        Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications

        A Pacific information brief from the Pacific Invasives Partnership (a working group of the Roundtable for Nature Conservation in the Pacific Islands)
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        State of the Environment Toolkit

        Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications

        State of Environment (SoE) reports provide in-country partners with a process to gather data on current environmental indicators, document their status, and formulate a plan for keeping...
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        Legislation Review

        Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications

        Concise environmental legislative reviews of Pacific Island countries plus Tokelau. Please submit new information or corrections as the reviews will be updated annually.
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        InforMEA - United Nations Information Portal on Multilateral Environmental Agreements

        Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications

        InforMEA provides easy access to information on Multilateral Environmental Agreements. It is an initiative facilitated by the United Nations Environment Programme and supported by the...
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        Convention on Biological Diversity Cartagena Documents

        Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications

        Guidelines, brochures, Indicators and published work on the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity which is an international treaty governing the...
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        MEA Database

        Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications

        Summary table of the status of Pacific Island countries in relation to International and Regional conventions.
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        Human Rights and Climate Change Law

        Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications

        This Special Issue of the Journal of South Pacific Law aims to provide insight into the role of international law in addressing the short-term and long-term challenges posed by climate...
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        Effects of Climate Change on Settlements and Infrastructure

        Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications

        This paper points out that the exposure to climate hazards varies between states based both on geographical factors (such as the propensity to experience cyclones and droughts, island...
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        Effects of Climate Change on Extreme Events

        Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications

        Pacific Island Commonwealth Member States (Pacific CMSs) are highly vulnerable to climate change (high confidence; robust evidence, high agreement). Impacts of climate change on extreme...
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        Effects of Climate Change on 1.5° Temperature Rise

        Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications

        This report synthesizes the emerging evidence of climate impacts at different temperature thresholds for Pacific islands. All evidence points to vast differences in impacts in a 1.5˚C...
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        ADB Climate Change Programs - Facilitating Integrated Solutions in Asia and the Pacific

        Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications

        Doumenting ADB’s ongoing and emerging climate change mitigation and adaptation programs, and how they continue to play a catalytic role in helping Asia and the Pacific meet the challenges...
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        Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, Mitigation and Indigenous People

        Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications

        This compendium presents a wide-ranging overview of more than 400 projects, case studies and research activities specifically related to climate change and Indigenous Peoples. It provides...
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        Pacific Climate Finance

        Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications

        End of Internship presentation on Pacific Climate Finance. Section are: climate finance challenges, overview of climate finance in the Pacific, and next steps.
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        El Niño and its Relationship to Changing background Conditions in the Tropical Pacific Ocean

        Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications

        This paper addresses the question of whether the increased occurrence of central Pacific (CP) versus Eastern Pacific (EP) El Niños is consistent with greenhouse gas forced changes in the...