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OutlineOutline Key vulnerabilities and climate change issues

National Adaptive Responses

Policy related instruments

Institutional setting

On-t e groun programs

National Climate Change Priorities and Needs

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Vulnerabilities and issuesVulnerabilities and issues

Climate change causefactor

Primary impact(s) Issues

Temperature Increase Heath related diseases, impactson social activities

Pressure on hospitals, changes insocial activities and human andcrop productivity

Sea level rise Inundation, seawater intrusion,land erosion

expensive costs on maintainingdamaged settlements,infrastructures, brackish water,diseases, potential social panic,etc

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and diversity deterioration,shifting in tuna stocks, incidencesof fish poisoning

sectors, sustenance declining, etc

Storm surges Erosion, economic andenvironmental damages

Pressure on insurance companies,expensive costs for rehabilitation,pressure on aggregate materials,etc

Ocean acidification Decline in marine life, coral reef breaching

Losses in sources of income andsustenance, loss of marinespecies,

Rainfall variability and Droughts Wide spread of vector-bornediseases, dust, thinning of

groundwater resources, decline interrestrial crops production

Water shortages risks, associateddisasters and pressures on

hospitals, intense rain damagesroad infrastructures, etc

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National adaptive responsesNational adaptive responses

1. National Policy related instruments

National Development Plan recognising climate change as one of the sub

key policy area under Environment Policy Area

National Climate Change Framework (in progress)

r a ma e ange ap a on o cy a emen an ra egy

Sectoral Plans and responses to climate change:

- Water and Sanitation Policy and Strategy

- Coastal Hazard and Risk Assessment Study

- Environment Act integrating climate change into the EIA processes- Building Codes integrates climate change factors

- Coastal engineering processes integrates climate change (in process)

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2. Institutional set up for climate change

National Adaptation Steering Committee

Climate Change Study Team

National adaptive responsesNational adaptive responses

Strategic Risk Management Unit, Office of President with a mandate tocoordinate Policy issues related to reducing national potential risks anddisasters including climate change adaptation

Environment and Conservation Division with a portfolio on managingtechnical climate change issues

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List of programs Partners

Kiribati Adaptation Project phase II World Bank

NAPA Project UNDP

Disaster Assistance Coastal Protection Taiwan Government

3. On the ground adaptation programmes

National adaptive responsesNational adaptive responses

Capacity building to relevant agencies UNDP

EDF projects addressing water andrenewable energy projects

EU

Renewable energy projects Italy Government

Phoenix Island Protected Area Project Conservation International

GEF small grant programs GEF

Mangrove Re-planting Scheme Japan Government

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NationalNational FrameworkFramework of Climate Change Priorities and Needsof Climate Change Priorities and Needs

Waterresourcesecurity

Coastalproblems

Foodsecurity

Health

Bio-diversitybased

resources

SocialDimension

capacity building, institutional strengthening, access to technology for

mitigation, mainstreaming, external financial commitments, governance,

population, services and survivability

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Moving from Strategy to ActionMoving from Strategy to Action????????

Sectoral capacity building to form a strong enabling environment structure

Implementation of Climate Change priorities identified in relevant NationalPolicy frameworks and instruments

- National Development Plan

- National Climate Change Framework

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- Water and Sanitation Policy and Strategy

- Coastal hazard risk assessment studies

Implementation of Key sectors Plan and programs (government and non-government) that are relevant in the climate change business