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 Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Viti Levu, Fiji

Goal:

• To provide technical assistance in the completion of the Fiji Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment, as part of the Fiji National Communications to the UNFCCC[1].

• To provide assistance in finalizing the sectoral working papers presented at the Asia Pacific Network \ World Bank Workshop held in August 1999.

Conduct Workshops with the Department of Environment in the completion of sectoral papers presented at the APN\World Bank workshop.

Develop PACCLIM[2] further with FIJI climate, elevation and soils data.

During 1999, a prototype version of the PACCLIM model was developed, incorporating:

• A regional scenario generator;

• Fiji climate, elevation and soils data;

• Kiribati climate data.

The incremental cost of this development was funded through SPREP/PICCAP[3] and the World Bank.  The Department of Environment, through PICCAP Fiji, have also contributed by bearing the cost of the Fiji elevation and soil data.

De Wet, N. A. and Hales, S. (2000) Human health. Chapter 7. In: Feresi, J., Kenny, G., de Wet, N., Limalevu, L., Bhusan, J. and Ratukalou, I. (eds.). Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment for Fiji. Fiji Pacific Island Climate Change Assistance Programme, Government of Fiji, Suva, Fiji, and International Global Change Institute, Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand. pp. 96-135.

Feresi, J., de Wet, N., Kenny, G. (2000). Overview of Fiji. Chapter 2. In: Feresi, J., Kenny, G., de Wet, N., Limalevu, L., Bhusan, J. and Ratukalou, I. (eds.). Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment for Fiji. Fiji Pacific Island Climate Change Assistance Programme, Government of Fiji, Suva, Fiji, and International Global Change Institute, Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand. pp. 9-14.

Feresi, J., Kenny, G., and de Wet, N. (2000). Introduction. Chapter 1. In: Feresi, J., Kenny, G., de Wet, N., Limalevu, L., Bhusan, J. and Ratukalou, I. (eds.). Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment for Fiji. Fiji Pacific Island Climate Change Assistance Programme, Government of Fiji, Suva, Fiji, and International Global Change Institute, Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand. pp. 1-8.

Feresi, J., Kenny, G., de Wet, N., Limalevu, L., Bhusan, J. and Ratukalou, I. (eds.): 2000, with contributions from Hales, S., Maharaj, R., Ogoshi, R. and Terry, J., Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment for Fiji, Fiji Pacific Island Climate Change Assistance Programme, Government of Fiji, Suva, Fiji, and International Global Change Institute, Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand, p. 135.

International Global Change Institute (IGCI), (2000). FijiClim Prototype. Programming Language: Delphi

Kenny, G., Bhusan, J., Ogoshi, R. and  Ratukalou, I. (2000). Agriculture. Chapter 6. In: Feresi, J., Kenny, G., de Wet, N., Limalevu, L., Bhusan, J. and Ratukalou, I. (eds.). Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment for Fiji. Fiji Pacific Island Climate Change Assistance Programme, Government of Fiji, Suva, Fiji, and International Global Change Institute, Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand. pp. 71-95. (have copy)

Kenny, G. and de Wet, N. (2000). Capacity-Building Activities Related to Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment and Economic Valuation for Fiji. Report to the World Bank. (have copy)

 Kenny, G., de Wet, N., and Feresi, J. (2000). Scenarios. Chapter 3. In: Feresi, J., Kenny, G., de Wet, N., Limalevu, L., Bhusan, J. and Ratukalou, I. (eds.). Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment for Fiji. Fiji Pacific Island Climate Change Assistance Programme, Government of Fiji, Suva, Fiji, and International Global Change Institute, Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand. pp. 15-20.

Kenny, G., de Wet, N., and Taeuea, T. (2000). Scenarios. Chapter 2. In: Taeuea, T., de Wet, N., and Kenny, G. (eds.): Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment for Kiribati. Kiribati Pacific Island Climate Change Assistance Programme, Government of Kiribati, Tarawa, Kiribati, and International Global Change Institute, Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand, pp.13-17.

Kenny, G., Harman, J., Flux, T., Warrick, R. and Ye, W. (2000). CLIMPACTS Description and Users’ Guide: For a Regional Version of the CLIMPACTS System. International Global Change Institute (IGCI), University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

Kenny, G., Ye, W., Warrick, R. and de Wet, N.A. (2000). FIJICLIM – Description and Users Guide. IGCI Technical Report Series, University of Waikato, Hamilton.

PICCAP Fiji Country Team and IGCI (2000). Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation for Fiji. Prepared by Pacific Islands Climate Change Assistance Programme (PICCAP) – Fiji Country Team and the International Global Change Institute (IGCI), University of Waikato; in partnership with the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP); with support from the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP-GEF). Published by Department of Environment, Suva, Fiji.

[1] UNFCCC: United Nations Framework for Climate Change Convention

[2] PACCLIM is an climate change integrated assessment computer model for the Pacific islands.

[3] South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), Pacific Island Climate Change Assistance Programme (PICCAP)