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IGES organised an International workshop and an Introductory
Seminar at the SPREP Training and Education Centre, Apia, Samoa.
This workshop provided a forum for frank discussions in an
informal setting on various issues including climate scenarios
and implications, climate change impacts, local coping strategies,
national adaptation policies, and approaches for mainstreaming
climate change adaptation in development planning. A discussion
to prioritize needs and challenges for the region was facilitated.
A half-day session on exploring opportunities for Clean Development
Mechanism (CDM) in the region was also held subsequent to the
adaptation workshop.
There was consensus among the participants that adaptation
to climate change is of high priority in the region. The adverse
impacts of climate change and sea level rise were already being
felt in several countries, and current and future impacts would
be especially severe in the water resources sector, which in
turn has wide implications on the other sectors of the economy
including tourism. Facilitating proactive adaptation at the
community and local level was considered crucial besides international
assistance and national adaptation policies. The participants
recognized that future efforts in adaptation should involve
the civil society more proactively than before.
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12-14
October 2004 |
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SPREP
Training and Education Centre, Apia, Samoa |
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Institute
for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan
UNEP Risoe Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development
(URC), Denmark |
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Secretariat
for the Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP),
Samoa |
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Ministry
of the Environment, Japan
Government of New Zealand
Australian Greenhouse Office |
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people from 18 countries including 12 South Pacific [American
Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia,
Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Niue, Samoa, Solomon
Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu] and 6 others [Australia,
Denmark, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, and USA]). The
participants included policy makers, senior and middle-level
managers of national governments engaged in adaptation/CDM,
researchers from universities (Ibaraki University, University
of the South Pacific, University of Waikato) and other
scientific institutions (NIWA, East-West Center), representatives
from two inter-governmental (SPREP, SOPAC) and two international
(UNDP, UNEP) organizations, and officials from two development
aid agencies (JICA, AusAID) and two international NGOs
(WWF, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies). |
Executive Summary 732KB
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Contact
Dr. ANCHA Srinivasan (Principal Research Fellow, Climate Change
Project)
e-mail
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