Pacific Conservation Database
Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change and Resilience Building (PACRES)
PIRT Member organisations
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), Pacific Community (SPC), University of the South Pacific (USP)
Other partner organisations
EU, PIFS, Monaco and the Swiss Confederation
Countries of implementation
Cook Islands, Nauru, Niue, Tuvalu, Solomon Islands, Palau, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea
About
The Project supported PICTs to develop and review policies and legislation, strategic plans to strengthen climate change resilience; and enhanced regional and national adaptation and mitigation solutions to address climate change challenges in 15 Pacific ACP countries.
The objective is to increase the resilience of Pacific countries to climate change and achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, especially number 13- "Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts " to reduce poverty and promote sustainable development.
Ensuring better regional and national adaptation and mitigation responses to climate change challenges facing Pacific countries at an operational, institutional and financial levels.
Framework Action Tracks
14 – Ecosystem-based approaches to climate change, pandemic and disaster response, 04 – Sustainable and resilient island economies, 05 – Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to sustain our social-ecological systems, 19 – Science and traditional knowledge for target-setting and monitoring, 20 – Governance that works for nature conservation, 21 – Sustainable financing for nature conservation
Status
Completed