Climate Change Resilience
By Pita Ligaiula of Pacific Island News Association (PINA)
17 August, 2017, Honiara, Solomon Islands, PMC-4 – Samoa will host the next Pacific Meteorological Council Meeting (PMC) in 2019.
This was endorsed by members of PMC at the end of their meeting in Honiara on Wednesday.
Samoa‘s Meteorological Services Assistant Chief Executive Officer Mulipola Ausetalia Titimaea extended his country’s offer to host as the new Pacific Climate Change Centre (PCCC) will be inaugurated the same year.
The meeting was briefed on the next venue of Pacific Meteorological Council Meeting and the frequency of the PMC and Ministerial meeting by the Director-General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), Kosi Latu.
Pacific Met Directors, Partners, Donors & Participants of PMC-4
It was noted that the PMC and the Ministerial meeting fall in the same year as SPREP’s officials meeting.
The meeting heard that SPREP’s preference is for the PMC meeting to fall in an off year from the biennial SPREP officials meeting.
The secretariat proposed that the PMC should meet in 2019 and then meet again in 2020 with the Ministerial meeting.
After 2020, the PMC endorsed that it would meet every two years and the Ministerial meeting would be held every four years.
The outcome of the PMC meeting this week will be presented to the ministers responsible for meteorology in the Pacific in their one day ministerial this Friday in Honiara for their endorsement.
Today PMC members will hold their inaugural dialogue with donor partners’ forum in a closed-door session. – #PMC4 #PacificMet
The Fourth Pacific Meteorological Council is being held in Honiara, Solomon Islands from the 14 – 17 August co-hosted by the government of Solomon Islands, the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and World Meteorological Organization (WMO). This will followed by the Second Pacific Meteorological Ministers Meeting (PMMM) on the 18 of August.
The PMC and PMMM is supported by the Government of Solomon Islands, SPREP, WMO, Government of Australia through the Climate and Oceans Support Programme (COSPPac) and Pacific Australia Climate Change Science and Adaptation Planning Programme (PACCSAP), Government of Finland, National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United Nations Development Programme through the Resilience in the Pacific (SIDS) project.
The PMC consists of members of the Pacific National Meteorological and Hydrological Services supported by its technical partners, regional organisations, non-government organisations and private sectors.
This article was developed by a Pacific Media Team of Reporters currently providing coverage on the Fourth Pacific Meteorological Council in Solomon Islands. This activity coordinated by SPREP is supported by a partnership between the Government of Solomon Islands, SPREP, Australia funded project (Climate and Oceans Support Program (COSPPac) and UNDP Disaster for Pacific SIDS (RESPAC) project.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) or the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)both of which provided funding for generating media articles.
17 August, 2017, Honiara, Solomon Islands, PMC-4 – Samoa will host the next Pacific Meteorological Council Meeting (PMC) in 2019.
This was endorsed by members of PMC at the end of their meeting in Honiara on Wednesday.
Samoa‘s Meteorological Services Assistant Chief Executive Officer Mulipola Ausetalia Titimaea extended his country’s offer to host as the new Pacific Climate Change Centre (PCCC) will be inaugurated the same year.
The meeting was briefed on the next venue of Pacific Meteorological Council Meeting and the frequency of the PMC and Ministerial meeting by the Director-General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), Kosi Latu.
Pacific Met Directors, Partners, Donors & Participants of PMC-4It was noted that the PMC and the Ministerial meeting fall in the same year as SPREP’s officials meeting.
The meeting heard that SPREP’s preference is for the PMC meeting to fall in an off year from the biennial SPREP officials meeting.
The secretariat proposed that the PMC should meet in 2019 and then meet again in 2020 with the Ministerial meeting.
After 2020, the PMC endorsed that it would meet every two years and the Ministerial meeting would be held every four years.
The outcome of the PMC meeting this week will be presented to the ministers responsible for meteorology in the Pacific in their one day ministerial this Friday in Honiara for their endorsement.
Today PMC members will hold their inaugural dialogue with donor partners’ forum in a closed-door session. – #PMC4 #PacificMet
The Fourth Pacific Meteorological Council is being held in Honiara, Solomon Islands from the 14 – 17 August co-hosted by the government of Solomon Islands, the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and World Meteorological Organization (WMO). This will followed by the Second Pacific Meteorological Ministers Meeting (PMMM) on the 18 of August.
The PMC and PMMM is supported by the Government of Solomon Islands, SPREP, WMO, Government of Australia through the Climate and Oceans Support Programme (COSPPac) and Pacific Australia Climate Change Science and Adaptation Planning Programme (PACCSAP), Government of Finland, National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United Nations Development Programme through the Resilience in the Pacific (SIDS) project.
The PMC consists of members of the Pacific National Meteorological and Hydrological Services supported by its technical partners, regional organisations, non-government organisations and private sectors.
This article was developed by a Pacific Media Team of Reporters currently providing coverage on the Fourth Pacific Meteorological Council in Solomon Islands. This activity coordinated by SPREP is supported by a partnership between the Government of Solomon Islands, SPREP, Australia funded project (Climate and Oceans Support Program (COSPPac) and UNDP Disaster for Pacific SIDS (RESPAC) project.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) or the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)both of which provided funding for generating media articles.