Search the SPREP Catalogue

This document is a step-by-step guide to facilitating a one-day workshop on understanding climate change science and is targeted at audiences in the Pacific island region and Timor-Leste. The training module provides PowerPoint presentations with facilitator notes and explains participatory exercises aimed at enhancing capacity in understanding climate change science.

Pacific Climate Futures Version 2.0 is a web-based climate impacts decision-support tool available for free.

Tropical cyclones (TCs) affect many Pacific Island countries and their impacts can be sever in vulnerable island communities. An understanding of how tropical cyclones may change under future climates, including changes in windspeeds and associated rainfall, is essential for managing future climate risks and saving lives.

Development is a national priority for Vanuatu. However, there are limited natural resources available in this country. Therefore, like the rest of the world Vanuatu must outline methods that will retain the balance between development and maintenance of natural resources and the environment. The preservation of that balance is the practice, now endorsed, commonly known as Sustainable Development.