PACIFIC ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE (PACC)

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PACIFIC ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE (PACC)

• PACC Niue Linkages with Niue IWRM

Sauni Tongatule, Environment Department
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Outline

• What is PACC!
• GEF funded regional project on Adaptation to
  Climate Change
• Focal area Water
• Food security
• Coastal Management
• Linkages
• Niue choose Water as a focal area
• Should link up with the EUIWRM and the GEFIWRM

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Direct Observations of Recent Climate Change
(IPCC 4AR,2007)

• Warming of the climate system is unequivocal,
  as is now evident from observations of increases
  in global average air and ocean temperatures,
  widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising
  global mean sea level.

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ADAPTATION APPROACH

• Decision 11/CP.1 lays out three stages of
  adaptation as follows
• Type I Planning, Impact Assessments
• Type II Measures, Capacity Building
• Type III Measures, Adaptation Implementation
• PACC is a combination of II and III

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What is PACC!

• Regional UNDP/GEF project on climate change
• Participating PICs (13) Cook Islands, Federated
  States of Micronesia, Fiji, Nauru, Niue, Papua
  New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu
  and Vanuatu
• Marshall Islands Palau included in Dec 07
• UNDP implementing agency with the Secretariat of
  the Pacific Regional Environment Programme as
  implementing partner.

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Main Objective

• Enhance the adaptive capacity and resilience of
  key development sectors in Pacific Island
  Countries to impacts of climate change.
• Water
• Food security
• Coastal Area Management

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Project Phase Focus

• Implementation is planned to start in November
  08.
• The project would be for 5 years.
• For Niue Improved household rainwater
  harvesting to reduce water supply shortages due
  to cyclone associated damage to public water
  supply systems and in time of severe drought

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Project Phase Focus

• IWRM we believe will focus on improved land
  management in the borehole catchment zones of the
  Alofi (capital) well-field to protect public
  water supply drinking water quality.
• There is complimentarity in the two projects
  rather then duplication The PACC project
  considers cyclone impacts, whereas the IWRM
  project considers the non-climate related issue
  of groundwater quality vulnerability to land use.
  

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