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6 Steps to reduce Your impact
Basic Energy Efficiency Pointers:
- Turn off lights in unoccupied areas
- Use compact fluorescent lights
- Use as much daylight/sun light when possible instead of electrical lights
- Air conditioning temperature set point should be 25degrees and above
- Keep doors and windows closed in an air conditioned room
- Switch off the hot water switches and appliances in home and at office after hours
Why Energy Savings?
- Households can save money if they use electricity wisely
- Reduced energy usage will lead to decrease in greenhouse gas emissions
- Reduced operating expenses and improved profitability for businesses
- Reduced consumption will help FEA in terms of reduced diesel costs and use
Climate Witness
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
Recent Publications
Climate Witness Adaptation Programme Funding Prospectus
Climate Change in the Pacific: WWF Prospectus
Climate Change & Pacific Island Nations: The Bali Roadmap Brochure
The Latest Findings from the IPCC: The IPCC’s “Small Islands” chapter summarises the latest scientific findings relevant to climate change in the Pacific Island region.
Download the Climate Witness Toolkit! A Community based management tool for climate change!
» Get the Toolkit! (2.6MB pdf) Available now in:
We have added an exciting new array of publications to our growing list! They include the following:
- Climate Change & Variability in Tikina Wai, Fiji Islands: a case study of climate impacts
- Preventing Dangerous Climate Change - a flyer for non-government organisations and communities
- Preventing Dangerous Climate Change - a flyer for government departments and businesses
- A revamped factsheet on climate change - for everyone!
- A factsheet on the WWF Climate Witness Project - inspiring stories of a Fijian woman’s plea on climate change
- A factsheet on the WWF Friends of the Reef Project
- Climate Witness stickers- for kids and adults alike!
WWF Global
Want to know more about other work WWF is doing on climate change internationally? Visit the WWF Climate Change website.
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© WWFSPP / Diane McFadzien. Coastal erosion on Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Climate Change News
Fiji’s first Earth Hour: Millions Switch Off and Switch On to Climate Change
9 April 2008, Suva, Fiji. YOU made a difference by ‘switching off’ the lights on the March 29th when our tiny island nation of Fiji led the world in the fight against climate change.
Some of you sat outside your shops with candles, children reminded their parents to click the switch, some had kava in darkness in their village, others lit diya’s and candles when watching rugby, while some paddled to light torches.
Fiji: first nation to switch off for Earth Hour
29 March 2008, Suva, Fiji. Tonight, the tiny island nation of Fiji led the world in the fight against climate change. More than 370 cities, councils and towns around the world will be participating in this global event, but Fiji was the first nation where people and businesses from all over the country “switched off” for Earth Hour.
At 8pm Fiji time, hundreds of businesses and individuals from at least five main islands of Fiji switched off and showed the world that Fiji is ready and willing to take action on climate change. Other cities around the world will continue to switch off their lights as they reach 8pm local time.
Climate witnesses pledge support for Earth Hour
18 March 2008. Individuals witnessing the impacts of climate change on their local environments and communities encourage people around the world to join the global Earth Hour movement and switch off on 29 March 2008.
These “climate witnesses” are sharing their stories with the WWF Climate Witness Programme to demonstrate the present and growing impact of climate change and to push governments to act swiftly to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
Penina Moce lives on the remote Fijian island of Kabara in the South Pacific. The island is seeing climate change related impacts such as coastal erosion, changing rainfall patterns and less fish and garden crops. The accumulative impacts are forcing many of the younger people on the island to leave for the larger centers of Fiji.
US Government Proposal Has Potential to Derail Bali Climate Conference
14 December 2007. A move by the US government could push the Bali climate negotiations to the brink of failure, WWF officials warned.
The US proposal would eliminate language that called upon developed nations to consider specific, internationally binding, quantified reduction commitments, replacing it with text that calls upon countries to adopt any measures they deem appropriate.
» Read more on the US's proposal
» Read the Fiji governments position at the UNFCCC conference, "Climate Change Affects Tourism Industry"
It's Time to Make the Pacific Voice Heard at UN Climate change conference
14 November 2007
In order to facilitate in-depth reporting of the proceedings and outcomes of the upcoming regional climate change event in Bali, the COP 13, WWF is holding a media briefing on Thursday 22 November 2007 so that the Pacific public are well informed. Find out what you can do to make your pacific voice heard!
What: Media briefing on UN Climate change conference
Where: National Trust Conference room (next to WWF), 3 Ma’afu street
When: Thursday 22nd November, 2007
Time: 3.00pm – 5.00pm
Key Guests: Epeli Nasome, Ministry of Environment, Fiji Pepetua Latasi, Department of Environment, Tuvalu Deyna Marsh, National Environment Service, Cook Islands
High-Level Event on Climate Change
17 September 2007. Next week's UN High-Level Event on Climate Change, called by the UN Secretary General to bring together world leaders, to “accelerate a global response to climate change”
WWF encourages Pacific Island nationals to check if their government will attend this event and to find out what their stand will be. It is our chance to raise all Pacific Island voices and take “The Future in our Hands” by addressing the leadership challenge of climate change.
“As countries highly vulnerable to climate change, Pacific Island leaders or ambassadors must attend this meeting. The even will discuss issues on climate change that are very important to the Pacific- adaptation, mitigation, technology and financing. Pacific Island leaders have the duty and moral obligation to attend this meeting to ensure that the statement that ensues from this meeting sends a powerful signal to the 13th UN conference on climate change in Bali- that this year is the time when countries MUST start negotiation on a global agreement to keep climate change well below dangerous levels.”
- Ms. Jyotishma Rajan Naicker, WWF Climate Change Campaigner
Pacific can ally with APEC developing countries at Climate negotiations
11 September 2007. Suva, Fiji – Pacific Island countries, as developing island states, may find potential allies in Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) developing countries to start negotiating a global agreement to keep climate change well below dangerous levels at the UN climate change conference in Bali in December 2007, says WWF South Pacific Programme.
This follows APEC developing countries rejecting attempts by developed countries like Australia, USA and Canada to negotiate a global agreement to keep climate change outside of the United Nations, at last weeks APEC Summit in Sydney.
Governments recognize need for deep emission cuts
1 September 2007. Vienna, Austria - Governments negotiating a new global deal on climate change accepted a safe range for emission reductions of harmful climate pollution, WWF said today.
The talks in Vienna were designed to prepare for the UN’s ministerial conference on climate change in Bali in December. The 100 countries meeting in the Austrian capital were to agree the level of emissions cuts that are needed from industrialized countries, to keep climate change well below dangerous levels.
The current emissions reductions targets agreed under the Kyoto Protocol end in 2012. In Bali, environment ministers need to formally launch the negotiations that will conclude in 2009 with an agreement on new binding deeper cuts in heat trapping climate pollution.
Fiji makes it to the Climate change series
Meltdown - a ground-breaking series focuses on the havoc already being wreaked on ordinary people at the frontline of climate change, around the world.
WWF joined TVE - Television for the Environment in Kabara, Fiji last year to produce the ‘Meltdown:Fiji’ series, one of the four episodes produced for the global satellite channel Al Jazeera English.