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PACIFIC ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE
CHANGE (PACC)
PACC Niue & Linkages with
Niue IWRM
Sauni Tongatule, Environment
Department
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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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