Project overview
The IUCN Oceania Climate Change Programme aims to help Pacific Island Countries build resilience to climate change by:
- Safeguarding biodiversity by positioning nature conservation at the heart of community and country responses to their energy needs.
- Integrating sustainable energy systems into developing new and expanded livelihoods.
- Reducing plastic waste generation and leakage from islands, and driving the circular economy forward.
Other partner organisations
- Samoa MNRE
- Vanuatu Ministry of Climate Change Adaptation, Meteorology, Geo-Hazards, Environment, Energy and Disaster Management
- Fiji Ministry of Waterways and Environment
- Tonga (MEIDECC)
- Vanuatu Environmental Science Society
- Vanuatu Recycling and Waste Management Association
- Samoa Recycling and Waste Management Association
- Waste Recyclers Fiji
- Recycle Corp Vanuatu
Framework action tracks
- 02 – Behaviour change for nature conservation through heritage and cultural expressions
- 03 – Sustainable and resilient ocean economies
- 04 – Sustainable and resilient island economies
- 05 – Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to sustain our social-ecological systems
- 06 – Environmentally and culturally sensitive tourism
- 08 – Marine ecological integrity
- 09 – Effective terrestrial protected areas
- 14 – Ecosystem-based approaches to climate change, pandemic and disaster response
- 17 – Preventing plastics pollution