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Lakeba : environmental change, population dynamics and resource use / H.C. Brookfield [editor]
Biodiversity Conservation
Towards Greener Taxes and Subsidies in Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs)
BRB

Watkins, Emma

The Restoration of Ecosystem Services and Adaptation to Climate Change (RESCCUE) project is a regional project implemented by the Pacific Community. The overall goal of RESCCUE is to contribute to increasing the resilience of Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) in the context of global changes. To this end RESCCUE aims at supporting adaptation to climate change (ACC) through integrated coastal management (ICM), resorting especially to economic analysis and economic and financial mechanisms. The RESCCUE project operates both at the regional level and in one to two pilot sites in four countries and territories: New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and French Polynesia. RESCCUE is funded primarily by the French Development Agency (AFD) and the French Global Environment Facility (FFEM) for a duration of five years (01/01/2014 to 31/12/2018). The project budget is 8.5 million Euros from AFD/FFEM. It is structured around five components: Component 1: Integrated coastal management – supporting ICM implementation through ICM plans, ICM committees, and management activities concerning both terrestrial and marine ecosystems, capacity building and income generating activities. Component 2: Economic analysis – using economic analysis to support coastal management and policy decisions. Component 3: Economic and financial mechanisms – setting up economic and financial mechanisms to generate additional and sustainable funding for ICM: review of options (payment for ecosystem services, taxes, user fees, trust funds, quota markets, offsets, labels…); feasibility studies; implementation; monitoring. Component 4: Capitalization, communication, dissemination of project outcomes in the Pacific – going beyond pilot sites activities in order to have impacts at the regional level, by fostering experience sharing between sites, cross-sectoral expertise, and communication and dissemination of the project outcomes. Component 5: Project management – implementing and coordinating the project, by providing technical assistance, organizing local and regional steering committees, conducting audits and evaluations (mid-term and ex-post), etc. The report is to present interesting illustrative examples. The examples were selected based on the scale of their (potential) environmental, economic and social impacts, and their relevance to the PICT region, to ensure they are representative of the broader region and any lessons learned from an example in one location could be transferable more widely. This report should be seen as a contribution to the future analysis of taxes and subsidies (and their reform) that can help to meet a range of challenges facing the PICT region. It aims to contribute to guiding the region towards greener taxes and subsidies, by building the knowledge and capacity of policy-makers and stakeholders and offering some ideas for the future further greening of instruments to support the achievement of environmental objectives.
Evaluating Ecosystem-Based Adaptation For Disaster Risk Reduction In Fiji
BRB
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Pike Brown ? Adam Daigneault ? David Gawith ? William Aalbersberg ? James Comley ? Patrick Fong ? Fraser Morgan

Natural disasters such as hurricanes, cyclones, and tropical depressions cause average annual direct losses of US$284 million in the Pacific. With a combined population of fewer than 10 million people, annual losses are the highest in the world on a per-capita basis. Extreme weather events such as heavy rainfall are closely linked to climate change, suggesting that Pacific Island nations face increasing risk of disasters such as flooding and landslides. Proactive management through infrastructure development, social solutions, and/or ecosystem-based adaptation can mitigate these risks. However, there are a paucity of data pertaining to the costs, effectiveness, and feasibility of most management options. In the wake of two major flood events and a cyclone occurring between January and December 2012, we conducted a state-of-the-science assessment of disaster risk reduction for flooding in the Ba and Penang River catchments in Viti Levu, Fiji to identify the most cost-effective management options for communities and households (Figure E1). The analysis accounted for the biophysical and socioeconomic impacts of flooding, the costs, benefits, and feasibility of management, and the potential impacts of climate change.
Background Paper Number 2: The Potential for Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) in the Pacific Islands.
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This report examines the role of the ecosystem services in reducing the vulnerability of the people of the Pacific Islands to climate change. Specifically, it describes the decision-making frameworks and the current state of knowledge of specific ecosystem-service/development relationships that are relevant to EbA. The primary objective of this work will inform broader recommendations on improving the integration of ecosystems, biodiversity and climate change adaptation under the Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Climate Change in the Pacific - Analysis and Needs Assessment Project(The Project) which is part of a collaboration between the Secretariat for the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and Conservation International and was undertaken from January to July 2011. This report should be considered as a companion volume to the other 3 background reports produced under the Project: Climate Change Adaptation Options for Species and Ecosystems in the Pacific: Background Paper #1; Need Analysis for Information on Ecosystem, Biodiversity and Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific Islands Countries and Territories; Background Paper #3; Report on the Results Workshop from Nadi, 12-13 May 2011; Background Paper #4. The findings of each of these reports will be synthesized into a single, shorter volume that targets decision-makers in planning, agriculture, environment, fisheries and disaster management institutions in the Pacific. However, the audience for this EbA report (Background Paper #2) is technical staff in these institutions as it explores the next level of detail on EbA potential and practicalities of implementation.
Possible Vulnerability Assessment Methodology for Prioritizing Ecosystem-based Adaptation Interventions
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Loubser, Dave

Ecosystem-based adaptation : Natural solutions for resilience to climate change
Climate Change Resilience
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AusAID

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SPREP

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USAID

Integrating the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services to help people adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change.Having a healthy environment around us also secures our supply of freshwater, food and other natural resources. These are called'ecosystem services'and are the added benefits that do not come when 'hard' engineered adaptation solutions, such as seawalls, are built.
Pacific nations spotlight impact of climate change during UN Assembly debate
Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation

UN News Central, Pacnews

Pacific nations spotlight impact of climate change during UN Assembly debate
Speaking of sustainable development : towards a method of measuring the quality of nature in salt water habitats, the `amoeba'
Development of kelp Rockfish, Sebastes atrovirens ( Jordan and Gilbert 1880), and Brown RockfishS. Auriculatu ( Girard 1854, from Birth to Pelagic Juvenile Stage, with Notes on Early Larval Development of Black-and yellow Rockfish, s. chrysomelas (Jordan and Gilbert 1880), Reared in the Laboratory ( Pisces: Sebastidae)
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Watson, William

2004
Development of kelp Rockfish, Sebastes atrovirens ( Jordan and Gilbert 1880), and Brown RockfishS. Auriculatu ( Girard 1854, from Birth to Pelagic Juvenile Stage, with Notes on Early Larval Development of Black-and yellow Rockfish, s. chrysomelas (Jordan and Gilbert 1880), Reared in the Laboratory ( Pisces: Sebastidae)
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Watson, William

2004

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