The Pacific Regional Conference
The High Level Regional Conference on climate change in the Pacific, organised by the European Commission and supported by the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, was hosted by the Government of Vanuatu in Port Vila on 4th March 2011.
This Conference provided an opportunity to Pacific Countries and Territories, EU partners and Pacific Regional Organisations to take forward their joint climate change agenda.
Indeed, high level participants in the Conference provided the necessary guidance for the implementation of the Joint Pacific EU Initiative on Climate Change, launched by the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat and the European Commission, by the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding in Strasbourg on 15th December 2010. see the press release.
Click here for information about logistical arrangements for funded participants in Port Vila
Click here for information about the content of the different events
Agendas and practical information
- Agenda of the GCCA Pacific Technical Workshop (28 February to 2 March 2011) and Programme for the participants
- Agenda of the Policy Dialogue (3 March 2011) and background notes for policy dialogue on aid effectiveness, climate change and disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in the Pacific
- Agenda of the GCCA Pacific Regional Conference (4 March 2011)
- For more information about the conference see the press releases.
- To see the list of participants to the Conference, click here.
- See the Outcomes document and its annexes (Action plan 2011 - 2013, nb :draft under consultation in the region; outcomes of the policy dialogue on Climate Change resourcing and Aid Effectiveness; outcomes of the policy dialogue on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction)
- See here the video of the participation of the European Commissioner for Development to the Conference : Andris PIEBALGS, European Commissioner for Development, participating to a high level conference on climate change at Port Vila (Vanuatu)
Selected Reading
GCCA background
"The GCCA intends to step up cooperation and dialogue between the EU and the developing countries that are hit earliest and hardest by climate change and have the least capacity to react." The GCCA Factsheet is a synthesis to get more information about the origins, the purpose and implementation progress of the GCCA initiative.
Pacific-EU
1. EU-PIFS Joint Declaration on Climate Change
The Pacific Islands Forum Member States and the European Union have agreed to this Declaration on Climate Change on 7 November 2008 as a commitment between the two regions to address the challenges posed by climate change, including their priorities for mitigation and adaptation.
2. EU-PIFS Memorendum of Understanding on Climate Change
Memorendum signed in Strasbourg in December 2010 by the European Union and the Pacific Islands Forum Member States.
Other relevant documents
1. Current Status of Climate Finance
Document written by the OECD (October 2010)
2. Making the Most of Climate Change Finance in Asia and the Pacific
A synthesis report from five country studies in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam, by Nigel Thornton (October 2010)
3. Realising Development Effectiveness: Making the Most of Climate Change Finance, Bangkok Call for Action (October 2010)
4. Climate change and development: Key principles to inform climate change financing, OECD (October 2010)
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