KIRIBATI

Country Paper Presentation

ADB regional workshop on responding to Climate Change in the

Pacific: Moving from Strategy to Action
12-
12-13 October 2010
Nadi, Fiji
 Outline

Key vulnerabilities and climate change issues

National Adaptive Responses

Policy related instruments
Institutional setting
On-the ground programs

National Climate Change Priorities and Needs

Vulnerabilities and issues
Climate change cause
factor
Temperature Increase
Sea level rise
Sea Surface Temperature
Storm surges
Ocean acidification
Rainfall variability and Droughts
Primary impact(s)
Heath related diseases, impacts
on social activities
Inundation, seawater intrusion,
land erosion
Coral reefs breaching, marine life
and diversity deterioration,
shifting in tuna stocks, incidences
of fish poisoning
Erosion, economic and
environmental damages
Decline in marine life, coral reef
breaching
Wide spread of vector-borne
diseases, dust, thinning of
groundwater resources, decline in
terrestrial crops production
Issues
Pressure on hospitals, changes in
social activities and human and
crop productivity
expensive costs on maintaining
damaged settlements,
infrastructures, brackish water,
diseases, potential social panic,
etc
Income losses on fisheries
sectors, sustenance declining, etc
Pressure on insurance companies,
expensive costs for rehabilitation,
pressure on aggregate materials,
etc
Losses in sources of income and
sustenance, loss of marine
species,
Water shortages risks, associated
disasters and pressures on
hospitals, intense rain damages
road infrastructures, etc
National 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)

Kiribati Climate Change Adaptation Policy Statement and Strategy

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)
National adaptive responses

2. Institutional set up for climate change

National Adaptation Steering Committee

Climate Change Study Team

Strategic Risk Management Unit, Office of President with a mandate to

coordinate Policy issues related to reducing national potential risks and
disasters including climate change adaptation

Environment and Conservation Division with a portfolio on managing

technical climate change issues
National adaptive responses

3. On the ground adaptation programmes

List of programs Partners

Kiribati Adaptation Project phase II World Bank

NAPA Project UNDP

Disaster Assistance Coastal Protection Taiwan Government

Capacity building to relevant agencies UNDP

EDF projects addressing water and EU

renewable energy projects

Renewable energy projects Italy Government

Phoenix Island Protected Area Project Conservation International

GEF small grant programs GEF

Mangrove Re-planting Scheme Japan Government

 National Framework of Climate Change Priorities and Needs

Bio-
Water
Coastal Food diversity Social
resource Health
problems security based Dimension
security
resources

capacity building, institutional strengthening, access to technology for

mitigation, mainstreaming, external financial commitments, governance,
population, services and survivability
 Moving from Strategy to Action?

Sectoral capacity building to form a strong enabling environment structure

Implementation of Climate Change priorities identified in relevant National

Policy frameworks and instruments
- National Development Plan
- National Climate Change Framework
- Kiribati NAPA
- 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