Toolkit
Download the Climate Witness Toolkit! A Community based management tool for climate change!
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Your Stories
Want to be a Climate Witness?
Send us your stories on how climate change is impacting you in the Pacific. We want to know!
The Future Talking
Winning Speeches from Form 1 Students in Tuvalu, discussing Climate change and its affects on their remote island.
Meet Penina
Our climate witness from Kabara Island is making news in the international policy scene:
» More on Penina's life on Kabara Island
WWF Climate Witnesses testify to the everyday impacts of climate change. Read their stories in WWF International's interactive story, featuring Penina Moce, Fiji's Climate Witness. » View the movie
Publications
- A factsheet on the WWF Climate Witness Project - inspiring stories of a Fijian woman’s plea on climate change
- Climate Witness Brochure
- Climate Witness Community Workshop Report
- Climate Witness stickers- for kids and adults alike! Email us for some!
Climate Witness
The climate witness program is a global program that works to capture and provide information in relation to indigenous knowledge regarding climate change. The programme is far reaching as WWF’s work with local communities extend from the Inuit of Canada, the Sherpas of the Himalayas, the mangrove island dwellers of the Sunderbans in India, the Pampas communities in Argentina and isolated Pacific Island communities like Kabara in Fiji.
» More about Climate Witness Accounts
» Information on Kabara Island, Fiji
Recent Stories
Voices from the Front Lines
By Ben Namakin
Mr Ben Namakin is an Environment Educator at the Conservation Society of Ponhpei, Federated States of Micronesia.
“As a citizen of Kiribati, a vulnerable, low-lying atoll nation on the equator, climate change is close to my heart. I was fortunate to travel around the USA last year, sharing my story on how we are impacted by climate change. I hoped to convince citizens of the US to become global leaders in protecting vulnerable Pacific Island nations from climate change.”
“It is our responsibility to speak up – we contribute less than 1% of greenhouse gas emissions, but pay the heaviest price. We have very limited resources; therefore we cannot afford to fight global warming alone. US citizens need to know what the consequences are of their national government’s refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol - the only international legislation that mandates countries to reduce emissions of climate changing gases.”
A Community Tool Kit
by Francis Areki
The WWF Climate Witness Programme has developed a methodology called the ‘ Climate Witness Tool Kit’.
This toolkit outlines steps to develop a community-based adaptation strategy to deal with adverse impacts of climate change like reduced rainfall, coastal erosion and coral bleaching which are already being experienced.
Central to the process is community participation as it takes their experiences into account, ensures community ownership and long term implementation of the action plan.
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Inspiring Policy Makers and the Media
Climate Witnesses from Tuvalu and the Cook Islands spoke to a captive audience on how climate change was affecting their lives, communities and islands. One speaker was so convincing she inspired all the media present on this night (radio, print, TV, web) to publish excerpts from her presentation!
Interview with Johnnie Frisbie of the Cook Islands
Meet Ms. Johnnie Frisbie, a librarian and a staunch environmentalist from the island of Pukapuka in the Cook Islands. WWF talks to her about how climate change and sea level rise are eroding beaches, wells and sweet memories of childhood on Pukapuka and find out why people are leaving...
Gift of Water
To address the threat of climate change, WWF, in partnership of the Lau Provincial Office and Fiji Government has sent thirteen water tanks to Kabara, in Lau, as part of a community Climate Change adaptation project.