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13-17 October 2008
Apia, Samoa

The Pacific Island Leaders adopted the Pacific Islands Framework for Action (PIFACC) 2006-2015 in 2005 and SPREP was directed to develop an Action Plan to implement PIFACC, by establishing a set of national and regional activities that would meet the key principles of PIFACC. The PCCR will have a monitoring and evaluation function, amongst its other tasks, and will therefore allow PICTs to gauge the degree to which national and regional actions have met those key principles. It is envisaged that there will be yearly meetings of PCCR and that it will select specific themes to focus on each year to give particular attention to gaps, challenges as well as successes in the region. This will provide yearly opportunities to prioritise those areas where little progress has been made and to establish which key principles may have been met. Some principles may have to be revisited in future years.

In this sense the PCCR meetings could be viewed as stand-alone events in a continuum of PIFACC activities, while at the same time contributing to the overall achievement of climate change resilience in the Pacific region.

The sponsor for the PCCR is the Government of Switzerland. Other events during the week, such as the media training was sponsored by the Government of Canada and UNESCO; the Expert Meeting on Climate Change and Food Security was sponsored by the FAO. NZAid provided the seed funding to develop the Action Plan.

Roundtable Documents

• Final Draft Agenda
• Final Draft Action Plan Matrix
• Draft weekly timetable
• Note to participants of 2 Oct 08
• List of participants (revised, 16 Oct - 15:15)
• Briefing notes for facilitators:
  • Working Group I
  • Working Group II
  • Working Group III
• Keynote address: New directions for managing the challenges of climate change in the Pacific Islands (P. Nunn)

Background Documents

• ADB's climate change programmes
• AusAID Pacific Climate Prediction Project (PI-CPP)
• Australia's International Climate Change Adaptation Initiative
• Climate Change and Food Security Expert Group Meeting
• Climate Change: A Threat to Food Security in the Pacific (revised)
• Climate change, disaster risk reduction and the Red Cross in the Pacific
• Cool Earth Partnership
• Cool Earth Partnership Brief
• Funding Scheme for Bali Action Plan
• Funding Scheme for the Bali Action Plan - Beat Nobs
• Group 1 SPC CRGA Paper 3.2 - Climate Change Contributions from SPC to regional and national adaptation initiatives
• Group 1 SPC Policy Brief 5-2008 'Fisheries and Climate Change'
• Group 2 Regional study on the impact of climate change
• Group 2 SPC New Project Brief - Fisheries and Climate Change
• High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy
• Integrating Climate Change Risks in the Agriculture and Health Sectors in Samoa
• Italian project proposal on Greenhouse Gas Abatement through Energy Efficiency in the Land Transportation and Electricity Sectors in Samoa
• Melanesian coastal and marine ecosystem assets; identification, vulnerability and management
• PACC Highlights
• Pacific Climate Change Portal Project
• Pacific Climate Change factsheet
• Pacific Climate Information System (PACIS) flyer
• Proposal for a Regional Review of the Economics of Climate Change (RRECC) in south-east Asia
• Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries: The Way Forward
• Regional Review of the Economics of Climate Change in Southeast Asia
• SOPAC Summary Brief on CCCVSLR Round Table
• South Pacific Tourism: A Carbon Clean Future (OSTA)
• SPC and Climate Change: Background Brief
• SPC Policy Brief 1-2008 'Fish and Food Security'
• SPC-GTZ-Adaptation on climate change in the Pacific Island Region
• SPREPs Final Report to CIDA on the CBDAMPIC project
• Talking Points: Gender and Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific Region
• UNDP Fiji MCO Climate Change Projects
• UNGA Resolution on Security and Climate Change (3 October 2008)
• USP's work on climate change adaptation
• What is carbon capture and storage and how does it work?
• World Bank Matrix of Climate Projects