Climate Change

Pacific Adaptation 1 to Climate
Change and Resilience Building (PACRES) aims to ensure better regional and national
adaptation and mitigation responses to climate change challenges facing Pacific ACP countries.
It is being implemented by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
(SPREP), the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, the Pacific Community and the
University of the South Pacific.
PACRES is supporting regional and national climate change portals to increase access to

The overall goal of the Programme is to increase the resilience of populations in the Cook
Islands, Niue, Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) and Tuvalu to climate change
and climate-related hazards, through the delivery of timely, accurate and actionable climate and
ocean information and early warnings to facilitate climate-resilient policy, planning,
preparedness and response actions.
The Programme will establish integrated climate and ocean information services and multihazard

The Tuvalu Integrated Water Resource Management Project focuses on the atolls of Funafui, Niutao, Nanumea and Nanumaga working on developing drought management plans, creating water and sanitation plan, and collecting data and producing a toll to enable accurate forecasting of water shortages and drought information. 

Project Coordinator: Mr Lono Leneuoti

Project Coordinator: Mr Saamu Tui

Although climate change is cited as the most signifigant security threat to he south pacific, its likely effects on security and potential conflict are yet to be widely explored by the international an regional organisations present on the ground. Climate change in the pacific region has the potential for a myriad of cascading fragility and instability risks. These will affect men, women and youth differently, and vary across the region both according to timeframes under consideration and depending on the country context.

Project Coordinator: Alamoana Tofuola

Finance Assistance: Betty Fousaga

The Managing Water Scarcity through Strengthened Water Resources Management project responds
to MFAT’s Water Security Strategic Approach to address the climate change-related water security
challenges faced by Pacific Island Countries. The Project is being implemented by the Pacific
Community (SPC) over the three-year period from July 2020 to June 2023, and.