The Pacific Islands are extremely vulnerable to the effects of a changing climate. However, incorporating climate change components into protected area planning is a relatively new field and for some practitioners, has not been considered in management planning or implementation. The resources in this section are intended to assist practitioners with monitoring, managing and adapting for climate change within a protected areas framework.
The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants
A key feature of life’s diversity is that some species are common but many more are rare. Nonetheless, at global scales, we do not know what fraction of biodiversity consists of rare species.
The effectiveness of global protected areas for climate change mitigation
Forests play a critical role in stabilizing Earth’s climate. Establishing protected areas (PAs) represents one approach to forest conservation, but PAs were rarely created to mitigate climate change.
The Ocean as a Solution to Climate Change - Five Opportunities for Action (Summary)
The ocean is on the front lines of the battle against climate change. It already has absorbed 93 percent of the heat trapped by human-generated carbon dioxide (CO2 ) emissions.
The Ocean as a Solution to Climate Change Five - Opportunities for Action (Full)
The ocean is a dominant feature of our plant, covering 70 percent of its surface and driving its climate and biosphere. The ocean sustains life on earth and yet is in peril from climate change.
The past as a lens for biodiversity conservation on a dynamically changing planet
We are in the midst of a major biodiversity crisis, with deep impacts on the functioning of ecosystems and derived benefits to people (1, 2). But we still have time to pull back. To do so, it is imperative that we learn from plants’ and animals’ past actions (3, 4).
The Policy Implications of the Dasgupta Review: Land Use Change and Biodiversity
The “Dasgupta Review” of the economics of biodiversity (Dasgupta 2021) identifies many factors that threaten the ecological sustainability of our economies.
The Protective Value of Nature
The Protective Value of Nature summarizes the latest science on the effectiveness of natural infrastructure in lowering the risks to communities from weather- and climate-related hazards—benefits that we often describe as “natural defenses.” Over the past two decades, the body of research evaluat
The Republic of the Marshall Islands - State of Environment Report 2016
This report updates the 1992 State of Environment report with the latest findings from the Marshall Islands. Environmental reporting is defined as a requirement for RMI in the ‘Office of Environmental Planning and Policy Coordination (OEPPC) Act 2003’.
The Role of Protected Areas in Storing Carbon and Reducing Emissions
Campbell, A., Dickson, B., Gibbs, H., Hansen, M., Kapos, V., Lysenko, I., Miles, L. Scharlemann, J. 2009. The Role of Protected Areas in Storing Carbon and Reducing Emissions. IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science 6.
The State of the World's Mangroves 2022
Healthy mangrove ecosystems are critical for global climate action – playing a key role in carbon storage and in building resilience to a rapidly warming world.
These are the days of lasers in the jungle
For tropical forest carbon to be commoditized, a consistent, globally verifiable system for reporting and monitoring carbon stocks and emissions must be achieved.
Traditional Knowledge for Adapting to Climate Change
Traditional Knowledge Adapting to Climate Change: Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in the Pacific
Tropical forests as key sites of the “Anthropocene”: Past and present perspectives
Tropical forests are on the front line of climate change and human sustainability challenges, being key environments in discussions of the “Anthropocene” and some of the most threatened land-based habitats on the face of the Earth.
Turning the Tide for Coral Reefs: the ICRI Plan of Action 2021-2024
The twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss have brought into stark relief the need for greater collaboration and action at the international level to conserve, manage, and restore coral reefs.
U.S. National Park Service and Climate Change
Climate Change and Your National Parks
Vanuatu National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan [NBSAP] 2018-2030
Vanuatu signed and ratified the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD) joining other 190 CBD parties to protect our global biodiversity. Vanuatu’s first National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) was developed and endorsed in November 1999.
Variable effects of local management on coral defenses against a thermally regulated bleaching pathogen
Bleaching and disease are decimating coral reefs especially when warming promotes bleaching pathogens, such as Vibrio coralliilyticus. We demonstrate that sterilized washes from three common corals suppress V.
Variable effects of local management on coral defenses against a thermally regulated bleaching pathogen
Bleaching and disease are decimating coral reefs especially when warming promotes bleaching pathogens, such as Vibrio coralliilyticus. We demonstrate that sterilized washes from three common corals suppress V.
Video - Gwala Rising in the Bwanabwana Islands
'Gwala Rising in the Bwanabwana Islands' depicts the revitalization of traditional conservation practices in the islands of Papua New Guinea.
Videos of the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) project
Videos are an incredibly powerful tool for communicating dense information quickly. Videos of the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) project. We've put together a video playlist here.
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
