PSP Projects Overview

Pacific Focused Projects

Community Engagement

Our Community Engagement Team focuses on raising awareness about climate change in the Pacific community. Members in this team are involved in grassroots campaigning focusing on disseminating the correct information about climate change and the pressing environmental issues to the public. The team runs climate education programs, conducts presentations, workshops etc for schools, community organizations, civil societies and the youths.

In 2012, the team will run regular Youth Forums giving opportunities to young people to express their views, discuss and learn from each other about climate change and sustainable development.

Pacific Environmental Policies

PSP Pacific Policy Team works on climate change adaptation, mitigation and climate finance policies of the Pacific region. This team engages with the Pacific island governments, Pacific based environmental NGO’s and relevant stakeholders to incorporate youth ideas, views & feedback into national & regional environmental policies. Our policy buffs help to write youth climate change policies and closely with our other teams to educate the youth and our Pacific community about climate change policies.

Youth Produced Media

Our Communications Team is committed to reporting on the most compelling climate stories from the Pacific, amplifying the voices of the youth and the underrepresented Pacific island people through traditional and online social media, and launching “Survival” from climate change impacts to the forefront of the political debate. The purpose of our media campaigns is to get the climate change stories of Pacific island youth and community out to the world and to be the voices of the Pacific people at the United Nations climate change meetings.

Project Survival International

International Environmental Policies

The International Policy Team endeavors to work with international stakeholders to incorporate Pacific youth voice & ideas into various international environmental policies such as climate change and sustainable development. Our policy experts contribute to youth climate change policy efforts of the international youth climate movement and YOUNGO (the youth constituency of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). In addition, the team helps in PSP’s educational efforts in raising awareness about the global climate change policy developments.

Pacific Youth Delegations to International Meetings

Since our conception in 2009, Project Survival Pacific has been the only Pacific youth group representing the Pacific island youths at the United Nations climate change meetings. We have been sending teams to attend the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties climate change negotiations every year. Denmark, Mexico and South Africa, we were there.

Why do we send teams to international meetings?

We found it unreasonable that despite being some of the most vulnerable nations and people on earth in the face of climate change our Pacific people are under-represented at important climate change meetings, passed over by the weight of bureaucracy and swept under the rug of political expediency. Our Pacific Youth Delegation, made up of youths from different Pacific island nations, attempt to amplify the Pacific voice on climate change issues, especially in the UNFCCC process

“Seeing the youth at the negotiations is a tremendous support to the developing countries. Your campaigns have been innovative, visual and peaceful. If this can be kept up, it will send a very strong signal that a compromise on climate is not an option”

Christian Nielsen - Executive Director – Live & Learn

Accredited Solomon Islands negotiator at UNFCCC.

Building Youth Climate Movements

As one of the major stakeholder groups, youth have an important role to play in addressing climate change. Addressing and adjusting to the challenge of climate change is certain to be a defining feature of the future of today’s youth. It is therefore critical that young people educate themselves, get connected and become more actively involved in combating this threat with a unified global effort. PSP focuses on the development of youth climate networks both in the Pacific region as well as globally.

Our International team works in partnership with members of the international youth climate movement in advancing the role of youth in addressing climate change issues globally. In the past year, we have contributed to the organization of the International Youth Climate Movement’s annual Conference of Youth (COY) and helped our friends at the Mexican Youth Climate Coalition to start similar initiative called Project Survival Mexico.