Key documents
Fiji
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Date- Europe/CopenhagenCountrySamoa
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DateEurope/CopenhagenCountryGermany
9.30 - 10.30, COP23, Fiji Pavilion
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A baseline study on Vanuatu, Fiji and Samoa's potential renewable energy and energy efficiency lending market.
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Background
REEEP previously co-financed a low carbon tourism alliance in Fiji. The Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) then built on this with a Tourism Energy Efficiency Investment Programme (TEEIP) which assisted Fijian hotels and resorts that were investing in energy efficiency retrofits and leveraged the generation and trading of carbon credits.
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To design a Tourism Energy Efficiency Investment (TEEIP) framework programme for the Indonesian tourism sector including energy efficiency and carbon offset elements building on WWF’s experience in Fiji
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This report presents an overview of national circumstances as they relate to climate change. It also presents a greenhouse gas inventory, analyses mitigation strategies, a vulnerability assessment and adaptation assessments and options. An overview of policies and programmes relating to the implementation of the UNFCCC is also presented, including identified project concepts for further refinement and funding.
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The paper features a collection of short articles that focus on the complex links between environment and poverty reduction. The articles discuss how natural resources can contribute to economic growth that also benefits the poor. Focusing at a global level, it presents opportunities that can be created for people to move beyond subsistence levels through entrepreneurship, investments and enabling policies at the national and international levels. Some of the articles featured highlight the following issues:
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The report details a study that investigated the impact of climate change on tourism in Fiji.
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This report responds to a lack in practical materials for measuring the impacts of natural disasters. It comprises two key resources:a research report which demonstrates how past natural hazards in Fiji, Niue, Tuvalu and Vanuatu have resulted in significant short-term and long-term direct, indirect and intangible impacts.The case studies suggest that natural hazards have a considerable economic impact on development in the Pacific and often lead to deterioration in the quality of life of Pacific Island communities.
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This publication reflects the outcome of an initiative to identify instances of exemplary forest management in the region and examine the core components of high quality forest management in an effort to illustrate good forest management to a wide audience and encourage others to take up some of the most promising ideas, methods and approaches. More than 170 nominations were received from 21 countries in the region. Twenty-eight case studies were selected.