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    Country presentation made at the Regional Workshop on RESPONDING TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE PACIFIC: MOVING FROM STRATEGY TO ACTION, Hotel Novotel Nadi, Fiji Islands, 12-13 October 2010, organized by the Pacific Department, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila, Philippines For more details, see: http://www.adb.org/Projects/Pacific-Climate-Change/default.asp

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    Country presentation made at the Regional Workshop on RESPONDING TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE PACIFIC: MOVING FROM STRATEGY TO ACTION, Hotel Novotel Nadi, Fiji Islands, 12-13 October 2010, organized by the Pacific Department, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila, Philippines For more details, see: http://www.adb.org/Projects/Pacific-Climate-Change/default.asp

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    An Overview of National Climate Change Strategies and Priorities in Vanuatu

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    REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON RESPONDING TO CLIMATE

    CHANGE IN THE PACIFIC:


    MOVING FROM STRATEGY TO ACTION
    Hotel Novotel Nadi, Fiji, 12-13 October 2010

    Vanuatu
    Key CC Related Issues
    • Sea level rise
    • Increase in temperatures
    • Increase in frequency of
    extreme weather events
    • Water shortages
    • Increase in water- and vector-
    borne diseases
    National Response to CC
    • Draft National Climate Change Policy
    & Implementation Strategy
    • NAPA – 11 adaptation priorities - Top
    5 EU/WB implementation
    – Agriculture and food security
    – Water resource management
    – Sustainable forest management
    – Marine resource management
    – Sustainable tourism
    • NAPA - provides a prioritized
    programme of action for implemen-
    tation over the next 10 years
    • UNCCD – NAP
    • Mainstreaming forestry, environment
    and land use planning
    • Full cycle assessment to adaptation
    implementation
    Institutional National
    • NACCC established in the
    late 80s
    Government
    Framework • Mandated by CoM 2000
    to oversee CC in Vanuatu
    NACCC • Multi-sectoral
    representation
    • CCCT is the technical arm
    CCCT of NACCC

    PICCAP CBDAMPIC NAPA SNC VCCP VCCAP PACC

    R-PLAN Climate Change


    GCCA & Fisheries

    CC & CITIES CC &


    SPC Health
    MESCAL GTZ GFDRR
    Role of the NACCC
    • National implementation of
    the UNFCCC
    • National communications
    • GHG inventories
    • V&A assessments
    • Mainstreaming climate
    change into sectoral plans
    and policies
    • Facilitate access to funding
    for national climate change
    effort
    • Advice Government on
    climate change issues
    Financial Support National
    • Climate change work is
    mostly project based
    for CC Response Government
    • Sectoral implementation
    UNDP/GEF, EU, World by NACCC – sectoral
    Bank, AusAID, IUCN, NACCC mainstreaming
    Italian Government, • 1997 – 1 CC project
    McArthur Foundation, • 2010 – 12 CC projects
    CCCT
    WHO, UN-Habitat

    PICCAP CBDAMPIC NAPA SNC VCCP VCCAP PACC

    R-PLAN Climate Change


    GCCA and Fisheries

    CC & CITIES CC &


    SPC Health
    MESCAL GTZ GFDRR
    Needs for Assistance
    • NAPA – 6 remaining priorities
    • Range from sustainable livestock
    production to management of water
    and vector borne diseases
    • NAP
    • UNCCD – NAP/SLM NAP
    • Implementation of the EMC Act and
    Forestry Act
    • Need for a long term climate change
    investment plan

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