Blue Pacific continent volume I: Primer on Pacific regional climate change action

This volume seeks to collect in one place the names and scopes of action of organizations, agencies, and networks that Pacific peoples use to undertake CCA and DRR action. It also examines the “why” of climate action and points to future challenges as the climate changes. The CFE-DM’s Blue Pacific Continent Volume II - Reference Book of National and Territorial Climate Change Risks and Plans digs deeper into the individual states’ and islands’ exposure to climate hazards and their efforts to address their vulnerabilities to the impacts of those hazards.

The publication defines the way forward as: 

• Climate adaptation and resilience-building strategies including gender-sensitive planning to promote greater equality;
• Addressing climate challenges requires science-driven data, knowledge sharing, partnerships, and working collaboratively. There is a need to move beyond identifying vulnerabilities and expanding existing coping mechanisms to building inclusive, long-term resilience that creates stability for human systems to better handle and manage future impacts of the climate crisis'
• There is no one way to build resilience to the impacts of climate change among the 45 million plus 528 people who live in the broader Blue Pacific Continent from Hawaii to New Zealand and from French Polynesia to Palau. However, collective advocacy and action on the part of the people of the region is serving to keep the world’s attention on the risks posed if we fail to act.