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The Pacific Climate Change Centre (PCCC)

Enhancing Climate Change Action in the Pacific

About your PCCC

Since 2019, the Pacific Climate Change Centre (PCCC) has empowered our Pacific
Islands in meeting their climate change resilience priorities. The PCCC vision is to
be a globally respected Centre of excellence, highly valued by our Pacific Islands
as it provides practical support and training to address their adaptation and
mitigation priorities. This vision is underpinned by strong partnerships with Pacific
governments, applied research institutions, donors and the private sector.
The need for a programmatic approach and predictable climate investment
The vision of the PCCC reinforces the 2050 Blue Pacific Strategy articulating long-
term investments that responds to the challenges of climate change while playing In July 2022, Pacific Islands Leaders reconfirmed that National Priorities, as well as the PCCC Governance
a key role in the Pacific journey ahead which will be one towards progress, resilience and environmental stability Climate Change remains the single greatest existential and the Strategy and Business Plan. Each framework
in our Pacific. With its strategy and business plan, the PCCC is delivering four mutually reinforcing functions and threat and is facing a Climate Emergency that has a process for the incubation of the Partnership
services on knowledge brokerage, applied research, capacity building through training and learning, and supporting “threatens the livelihoods, security and wellbeing of its initiatives, engagement process, monitoring and
innovation to the SPREP members. people and ecosystems”. This declaration underscores evaluation and learning.

The PCCC was able to catalyse actions in supporting our Pacific islands with the support from the Government of the three years of operational experiences of the PCCC The PCCC is embarking on a consented effort to
New Zealand which is the major donor of the PCCC for staffing support from 2019–2024. on the need for a long-term programmatic approach ensure that these partnership frameworks are
In 2022, the Government of Australia made an investment of AUD 5 million to further operationalise and strengthen and predictable climate investment in the region. resourced through a programmatic approach with
the key services of the PCCC. The Government of Japan in partnership with the Government of Samoa provides The PCCC is taking strategic approach to ensure that the capacity to mobilise targeted support to the
technical cooperation projects for the PCCC from 2019–2022, and further investment from September 2023–2026 climate actions are sustainable and contributing to Pacific Islands with flexible and predictable climate
which will deliver on the innovation and capacity building functions of the Centre. resilience on the ground. investment to meet emerging needs and priorities.

Partnerships are criticial for the Centre. To ensure the The PCCC through the CBCRP-PCCC has developed
sustainability of the PCCC comes the development a Sustainability Plan for Capacity Building to identify

Strengthening the capacity of our Pacific Islands to respond to climate change of the Sustainability Plan for its Capacity Building target partners and areas of collaboration, including
function and the Partnership Frameworks for

Training and learning is a key service of the PCCC. MODULE 1 Climate science Knowledge Brokerage, Research, and Innovation. bilateral and regional institutions and climate finances,
in order to respond to the needs of the Pacific.
The objective is that the PCCC will become a MODULE 2 Sectoral adaptation (and mitigation) options Each framework proposed will guide and determine
one-stop-shop for climate change training of policy- MODULE 3 Logical framework the strategic directions for these key functions, Despite the growing interest in the work of the PCCC,
makers and practitioners. This means the PCCC is The total number of participants trained through the respective activities, and mobilise resources needed one of the major challenges is the lack of long-term
st
both providing training but also sign-posting to other CBCRP-PCCC project exceeded 520 from government, for the PCCC to deliver on its mandate. The 31 SPREP support and commitment for the work of the Centre.
training events and maintaining an up-to-date calendar NGO, and the private sectors with 9 external partners Meeting of Officials on 5–8 September 2023 endorsed Securing long-term investments through the
of training opportunities to be hosted on the PCCC supporting the delivery of 12 executive courses. these frameworks as mechanisms for delivery of the Partnership Frameworks will allow PCCC to make
e-learning module launched in 2021 during COVID-19. key services of the Pacific Climate Change Centre. important contributions to the delivery of regional
55% of the total participants of the 12 courses were The frameworks are developed to align to Regional and and global policies and agreements.
The “Project for Capacity Building on Climate Resilience female, and 4% were male. The Course Evaluation
in the Pacific” started in July 2019–January 2023 received high scores, with 77% of total valid
with an overall goal of ensuring capacities on climate respondents having utilised the training outcomes For more information, please contact pccc@sprep.org
resilience in the Pacific region are enhanced through in their relevant work. The PCCC also established
the establishment of the training function of the PCCC partnerships with Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)
and the delivery of 12 executive courses on adaptation, through the Climate Finance Access Network (CFAN)
mitigation and access to finance in the Pacific region. and the University of Melbourne through the Australian
These programmes were designed to include three Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to
modules: improve regional health and climate outcomes.

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