an overview of national climate change strategies and priorities in kiribati
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Country Paper PresentationCountry Paper PresentationKIRIBATI
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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
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