Climate Analytics is hosting three webinars to give participants hands-on experience with the climate tools developed under IMPACT. The webinars will cover the same material but will take place at different times to accommodate participants in the three IMPACT regions. Two will be in English (for Caribbean and West Africa; Pacific) and a third will be in French, to accommodate francophone West African participants.

You can register for the different webinars at the following links:
16 September (Caribbean and West Africa), 10am Eastern Standard Time, 2pm Greenwich Mean Time
18 September (Pacific), 10am West Samoa Time
18 September (West Africa), 2pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

The tools covered by the webinar include: RegioCrop; Local Sea Level Rise; RegioClim (developed under PAS-PNA project); Costs of Inaction; Adaptation Map

The webinar in the Pacific will include a presentation on a new guide on how to develop a Theory of Change.

Climate Analytics has produced new climate tools as part of the IMPACT project. These include a map providing an overview of adaptation actions that have been taken by 11 countries in West Africa and the Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) since 2010; and another showing the additional economic damages – the costs of inaction – that Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and Least Developed Countries (LDCs) face in a 3°C world compared with 1.5°C, the limit set out in the Paris Agreement.

Adaptation Map for West Africa and Caribbean
Costs of Inaction

Other tools developed under IMPACT and other Climate Analytics project:

RegioCrop
Local Sea Level Rise (Local SLR)
RegioClim (developed under the PAS-PNA project)

The full list of Climate Analytics tools can be found here.

The IMPACT project co-organised a series of workshops on IPCC reports, one in Burkina Faso on the special report on Land (SR Land), and two on the special report on oceans and the cryosphere (SROCC), in Samoa and Belize. At the Burkina Faso workshop, co-organised with WASCAL, delegates from the organisations CILSS/AGHRYMET, UEMOA and ECOWAS as well as IPCC and UNFCCC focal points and key scientists from ten West African countries discussed important issues for the region arising from SR Land and ways of strengthening regional scientific cooperation. At the Samoa workshop, co-organised with the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, much of the focus was on how to strengthen SCROCC from a small island developing states (SIDS) perspective. In Belize, participants at the workshop co-organised with the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre and Charles Associates discussed pertinent SCROCC issues for the region and stressed the importance of strengthening cooperation amongst Caribbean countries on IPCC matters.

Learn more about the IMPACT workshops

For many years, small islands have called for the market mechanisms to go beyond offsetting to deliver measurable, net mitigation that the atmosphere actually sees: a real reduction in emissions.

Market mechanisms, or more broadly emission trading schemes, have been around for a long time, including, for example the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under the Kyoto Protocol. Ongoing negotiations on the rules for markets under the Paris Agreement provide an important moment to reflect on what we want markets to deliver, and to design a system that goes beyond simple offsetting.

The submission by the Alliance of Small Islands States lays out how market mechanisms should be designed.

One of the key aspects of our climate diplomacy work under IMPACT is to support negotiators, government ministries and delegates of a number of LDCs and SIDS in navigating and shaping the rules guiding of UNFCCC Funds, including the Green Climate Fund.

Since the establishment of the GCF in 2010, we have been supporting SIDS and LDC board members to sustain their active engagement and to enable them to participate equitably in the work of the board, including its technical panels and committees.

BLOG: The role of finance and investment in meeting the 1.5°C goal

Five key messages from the IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C on the role of investments and finance for mitigation and adaptation, in particular for the most vulnerable countries.

If we stand still we are at risk of losing our coasts, our reefs, our land and our food. This is as much a reality for Small Island Developing States as it is for the world,” said Ambassador Lois M. Young, launching Belize’s two-year term leading the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). The Caribbean nation’s vision for the Alliance, which turns 30 this year, focuses on ambitious action on climate change, sustainable development and oceans.

Troubled land: a call for sustainable land use and rapid climate action
The IPCC’s latest report explores the complex interactions between climate change, land degradation and food security. It provides a stark reminder that climate change places the life support systems that land provides at risk.

The building blocks for vital climate adaptation in small islands
Improving access to climate finance and increasing absorption of funding opportunities are integral to speeding up Small Island Developing States’ (SIDS) efforts to enhance adaptation and build long-term resilience to climate change.

Glacial melt spells more trouble in the Himalayan LDCs
The recent landmark report on glacial melt in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya region paints a drastic picture, indicating that the glaciers will melt by one third even if the global temperature rise is limited to 1.5°C. However, the picture becomes even bleaker for the region’s Least Developed Countries.

More blogs

Recent briefings produced under the IMPACT project:

• Climate Adaptation and Theory of Change: Making it work for you
• Keeping up with the renewable revolution – updating the NDCs
• Loss and Damage Costing and Financing Mechanisms: Caribbean Outlook
• Debt for climate swaps: Caribbean outlook
• Why using blue carbon to offset emissions undermines the 1.5°C limit
• Why the 1.5°C limit is crucial to avoid worst climate impacts on oceans
• Latest science on tropical cyclones

More briefings

• Berrang-Ford, L., Biesbroek, R., Ford, J.D., Lesnikowski, A., Tanabe, A., Wang, F.M., Chen, C., Hsu, A., Hellmann, J.J., P. Pringle., Grecequet, P.M., Amado J.C., S. Hu2, S., Lwasa, S., and Heymann .S.J. (2019) Tracking global climate change adaptation among governments. Nature Climate Change.
• Thomas, Adelle, Shooya, Omagano, Rokitzki, Martin, Betrand, Maria, Lissner, Tabea et al. (2019) Climate change adaptation planning in practice: insights from the Caribbean. Reg Environ Change
• Sferra, Fabio, Krapp, Mario, Roming, Niklas, Schaeffer, Michiel, Malik, Aman, Hare, Bill,Brecha, Robert (2019) Towards optimal 1.5° and 2 °C emission pathways for individual countries: A Finland case study. Energy Policy

More peer-reviewed publications

In collaboration with partner organisations, IMPACT organises regular workshops for stakeholders in the three regions – Pacific, Caribbean and West Africa, and holds regular meetings of its Advisory Committee during UNFCCC sessions. You can find more information, photos and reports from these workshops here.

We organise and support public events to share the latest scientific information about how climate change affects vulnerable countries to amplify their call for urgent and ambitious climate action. You can find more information, photos and presentations from events organised through the IMPACT project here.

Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC)

Le Comité Permanent Inter-Etats de Lutte contre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS)

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)

West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL)

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research

Charles & Associates Inc (Grenada)