Increasing the Resilience of Pacific Islands

Raise Awareness through Public Outreach

What is WWF doing to address Climate Change in the Pacific? By raising awareness amongst Pacific Island people to empower them to take action, we are thereby increasing their resilience to its adverse impacts.

WWF produces resource materials for school children, civil society and governments. These materials include:

  • Voices from the Waves, a climate change video
  • Climate Change in the Pacific, a booklet on climate change and its impacts on the Pacific Islands
  • Climate change postcards to inform people in polluting countries what their climate changing gas emissions are doing to our lives and livelihoods in the Pacific

WWF also conducts video shows and school and community visits to raise climate change awareness.

WWF also seeks to gain the support of the pubic in campaigning for solutions to climate change, such as the February 16th event to mark the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol – delivering postcards signed by the Fiji public to the governments of Australia and the United States, calling for their ratification of this important global threat.

Climate Witness Project

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.

By collecting and documenting stories from these communities WWF not only attempts to highlight the multifarious impacts climate change has and is having on these communities but to also draw out and enhance the human face of the whole climate change phenomenon and debate on a global platform and getting developed nations such as the United States and Australia to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. A further overarching purpose of the programme is to raise climate change awareness within these communities that should empower them to take assertive steps and actions to increase their resilience to the adverse impacts of Climate Change. » Read more about Climate Witness.