The PSP Policy Team (Rowena Maguire, Harriet Kater, Jessica Lisle, Belinda Campbell and Natalie Ross-Lapointe) developed a range of factsheets for the Pacific youth delegates attending COP16. The topics vary from adaptation, to the science and human rights; with each issue addressed in relation to climate change impacts on the Pacific.

PSP Adaptation
There is already unequivocal evidence that climate change is taking effect. This fact sheet presents issues regarding climate change and the need for mitigation and adaptation.

PSP Mitigation
This fact sheet focuses upon climate change mitigation and looks at Australia’s role in mitigating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within the Asia-Pacific.

PSP Mitigation Efforts
There  is  a risk  that some small islands of the Pacific such as Tuvalu and Kiribati could eventually be sumerged altogether as a consequence of sea level rise. This fact sheets further highlights Australia’s responsibility to mitigate their emissions.

PSP The UNFCCC and COP
This fact sheet describes the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Conference of the Parties (COP) process.

PSP Pacific Climate Change Brief This fact sheet presents the observations made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and CSIRO, as well as some projections of the changes likely to happen with the current greenhouse gas emissions.

PSP Science Fact SheetClimate is the average weather conditions we expect over monthly, seasonal, annual or even longer time periods. This fact sheet describes how natural variability and human forcing is making it change.

PSP 1.5 Degrees
There is now international scientific consensus that the modifications in the earth’s processes will have a considerable effect on the global economy, quality of life and the natural environment. This fact sheet describes how even a 1.5 degree temperature rise will have negative consequences for the pacific.

PSP Human Rights and Climate Change
Climate change has the potential to impact upon many rights that are guaranteed at international law. This fact sheet presents a background for environmental human rights and how climate change can be incorporated into human rights law.

PSP Climate Refugees
What is a climate refugee? This fact sheet presents an overview of what is a climate refugee, the current lack of legal protection and what this means in the context of rising sea levels in the Pacific.

PSP Climate Change Justice
Issues of justice in the climate change context arise primarily because those most likely to feel the impacts of climate change are those least responsible for causing climate change and those with the least capacity to respond. This fact sheet decribes the issues, the solutions and the next steps to follow in order to make a change.

About PSP Team
Project Survival Pacific – who is PSP, what do we do, and how do we aim to do it?

 

Acknowledgements:

PSP Policy Team acknowledge and thank every member for their support and input into these Fact Sheets.