Climate Change Resilience
In recognition of the role that technology will play in addressing development challenges such as climate change, key stakeholders from Fiji, Tonga and Vanuatu are helping to identify requirements for a regional climate change adaptation and resilience planning decision support tool.
This activity is part of Pacific iCLIM Project, which aims to help develop and implement a regional approach to climate change information management in the Pacific. The Pacific iCLIM Project is supported by the Government Partnerships for Development program ( Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade initiative) and is being implemented by Griffith University in Queensland, Australia in collaboration with SPREP.
The decision-support tool component of the iCLIM Project arose from consultations with regional and national stakeholders, where there was an interest in accessible climate change vulnerability and adaptation tools – based on lessons learnt from past projects in the region and international best practice. Early assessment work has highlighted that there is considerable choice when selecting appropriate methods for climate risk, vulnerability and adaptation assessment. In the Pacific, different needs have resulted in there being several fit-for-purpose methodologies and associated tools advocated and utilised at any one time. The challenge is to ensure that method and tool selection is well informed and the selection process is transparent.
Working closely with Project Focal Points from the Vanuatu Meteorology and Geohazards Division and Fiji Climate Change Division, the iCLIM Project Team consulted with representatives from key user groups in government, research institutions and civil society in August. Consultations in Tonga will be carried out in September working closely with the Tonga Climate Change Division.
More broadly, the Pacific iCLIM Project aims to provide stakeholders in the Pacific with the capability to store data and information on stable infrastructure that will be available over the long-term; improve the capability of stakeholders to discover data and information through greater connectivity among information portals; ensure that connected data and information is clearly described with standard metadata, making it more widely discoverable to stakeholders; and ensure that data and data produced from tools are in a format and system that makes it both reusable and re-discoverable.
The decision support tool will be hosted on the Pacific Climate Change Portal – www.pacificclimatechange.net
More information on the Pacific iCLIM Project can be found at www.pacificclimatechange.net
This activity is part of Pacific iCLIM Project, which aims to help develop and implement a regional approach to climate change information management in the Pacific. The Pacific iCLIM Project is supported by the Government Partnerships for Development program ( Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade initiative) and is being implemented by Griffith University in Queensland, Australia in collaboration with SPREP.
The decision-support tool component of the iCLIM Project arose from consultations with regional and national stakeholders, where there was an interest in accessible climate change vulnerability and adaptation tools – based on lessons learnt from past projects in the region and international best practice. Early assessment work has highlighted that there is considerable choice when selecting appropriate methods for climate risk, vulnerability and adaptation assessment. In the Pacific, different needs have resulted in there being several fit-for-purpose methodologies and associated tools advocated and utilised at any one time. The challenge is to ensure that method and tool selection is well informed and the selection process is transparent.
Working closely with Project Focal Points from the Vanuatu Meteorology and Geohazards Division and Fiji Climate Change Division, the iCLIM Project Team consulted with representatives from key user groups in government, research institutions and civil society in August. Consultations in Tonga will be carried out in September working closely with the Tonga Climate Change Division.
More broadly, the Pacific iCLIM Project aims to provide stakeholders in the Pacific with the capability to store data and information on stable infrastructure that will be available over the long-term; improve the capability of stakeholders to discover data and information through greater connectivity among information portals; ensure that connected data and information is clearly described with standard metadata, making it more widely discoverable to stakeholders; and ensure that data and data produced from tools are in a format and system that makes it both reusable and re-discoverable.
The decision support tool will be hosted on the Pacific Climate Change Portal – www.pacificclimatechange.net
More information on the Pacific iCLIM Project can be found at www.pacificclimatechange.net