An Act to establish a comprehensive response to climate change, to provide for the regulation and governance of the national response to climate change, to introduce a system for the measurement, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions and for related matters.
The scope of the Climate Change Policy 2019 covers all climate change related activities within the Cook Islands. The horizon of the vision is 10 years. After coming into effect, the Policy mid-term review should be conducted in 2023 to assess its application and effectiveness.
The Cook Islands Climate Change Country Programme 2018-2030 was developed as part of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Readiness and Preparatory Support program. The key objective of the Country Programme is to outline the priorities that can be supported by the GCF and other development partners to progress the paradigm shift in the Cook Islands to achieve low emissions and climate resilient development. It serves as a roadmap for coherent engagement with partners in order to maximise financial opportunities and ensure that resources are directed efficiently towards national climate and development priorities.
The Displacement Guidelines is a “living” document and the information expressed in this publication supports the Fijian Government’s commitment to build a climate resilient nation. The Fijian Government reserves the right to periodically update the Displacement Guidelines, as may be needed, to ensure validity, transparency, and accuracy over time.
The Fiji Low Emission Development Strategy (LEDS) 2018-2050 is a "living" document to define pathways to achieve low emission development in Fiji until 2050.
This NDC Implementation Roadmap 2017-2030 is a “living” document that outlines a pathway for emissions reduction target under the Paris Agreement. The roadmap will contribute to meeting the targets set out in Fiji’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC).
El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a climate phenomenon that brings unusually warm water to the equatorial Pacific, stressing and often decimating coral reefs in its path through coral bleaching. Coral bleaching is a stress response by a diversity of coral genera, often associated with a period of prolonged elevated ocean temperatures (Glynn, 1993; Goreau & Hayes, 1994; Brown, 1997; Hoegh-Guldberg, 1999).
The Fijian Government recognises that climate change threatens central national constitutional commitments and has endorsed the National Climate Change Policy (2018–2030) as a central policy instrument to protect Fiji's development priorities from current, future, and intergenerational climate change risks.
The Fijian Government prepared this high-level strategic National Adaptation Plan (NAP) to spearhead ongoing efforts to comprehensively address climate change. This NAP communicates adaptation efforts across multiple government entities together under one document. The NAP influences and accelerates the national development pathway towards climate-resilient development. It seeks to improve resilience against changes in climate but also climate variability which will also increase under future scenarios.
The NOP intends to support, synergise, promote and establish best practice standards for oceans management within the Fiji Governemnt and for all relevant stakeholder groups including community groups, NGOs and the private sector.
The project will enable the Cook Islands to prepare its Third National Communication to the Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC. The activities within the Third National Communication are a continuation and update of the work done by Cook Islands to prepare the Second National Communication carried out by the National Environment Services (NES) 2011.
Main components are; 1) National Circumstances, 2) Inventory of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, 3) Programmes containing measures to facilitate adequate adaptation to, and mitigation of climate change, 4) Programmes and national action plans that are considered relevant for the achievement of the objectives of UNFCCC.
