In collaboration with partner organisations, IMPACT organises regular workshops and training sessions for stakeholders in the three project regions – Pacific, Caribbean and West Africa.
Climate Analytics hosted this webinar in September 2019 giving participants hands-on experience with the climate tools developed under IMPACT. The webinar, targeted at audiences in the Caribbean and West Africa, took place in English and covered: RegioCrop; Local Sea Level Rise; RegioClim (developed under PAS-PNA project); Costs of Inaction; Adaptation Map
Climate Analytics hosted this webinar in September 2019 giving participants hands-on experience with the climate tools developed under IMPACT. The webinar, targeted at audiences in West Africa, took place in French and covered: RegioCrop; Local Sea Level Rise; RegioClim (developed under PAS-PNA project); Costs of Inaction; Adaptation Map
July 29-30, 2019
Climate Analytics and the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) held this workshop in Apia, Samoa, allowing participants to review and discuss the draft IPCC Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere (SROCC). Representatives from Pacific island states, including UNFCCC and IPCC focal points, and members of the regional scientific community attended. Attendees discussed how the report could be strengthened from a SIDS perspective and lessons learned from the IPCC 1.5°C Special Report. Participants emphasised that regional governments can provide comments on the report and its findings.
July 8-9, 2019
The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, Climate Analytics, and Charles and Associates held this workshop in Belize City, Belize, to review the draft IPCC Special Report on Oceans and the Cryosphere (SROCC). A total of 17 participants attended, including representatives from eight Caribbean SIDS and from the University of the West Indies (UWI), reviewing the report and discussing pertinent issues for the region. Participants stressed the importance of the meeting for strengthening coordination among Caribbean SIDS on IPCC matters as well as the need to support regional scientists to become IPCC authors. Participants also discussed lessons learned from the IPCC 1.5°C Special Report.
May 27-28, 2019
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 met in Ouagadougou to discuss the upcoming IPCC Special Report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems (SR Land) at WASCAL Competence Center on 27 and 28 May. Participants discussed key issues for the region and ways of strengthening regional scientific cooperation at the event organised by Climate Analytics and WASCAL under the IMPACT project.
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16-19 July, 2018
This Implementation Workshop in the Pacific was hosted at SPREP in Apia, Samoa. A total of 23 representatives from Pacific countries attended, from Cook Islands, the Republic of Fiji, the Federate States of Micronesia, the Republic of Kiribati, the Republic of Nauru, Niue, the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, the Republic of Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Samoa. Presentations by experts and discussions focused on: progress of the IMPACT project, climate finance and national adaptation plans (NAPs), regional and global climate tools, and the IPCC 1.5°C Special Report.
July 2-5, 2018
Representatives from various Caribbean countries attended this workshop: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St.Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St.Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago. The topics presented and discussed included: progress of the IMPACT project, climate finance and implementation, project implementation priorities, regional research, tools developed under IMPACT and the IPCC 1.5°C Special Report.
August 28-30, 2017
Representatives from various Pacific countries attended this workshop in Apia, Samoa: Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Republic of Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Tuvalu. Project partners updated the attendees on available climate tools, including those produced under IMPACT, as well as opportunities for Green Climate Fund readiness support. A number of organisations provided further scientific input for the event: the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat and the University of South Pacific. Observer organisations attending: United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science.
May 30 – June 01, 2017
Representatives from a number of countries attended this workshop in Lomé, Togo: Benin, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. A number of institutions were invited to provide further scientific input and to discuss potential collaboration under the project: AGRHYMET (Application en Agrométéorologie et Hydrologie Opérationnelle), ACCAI (Africa Climate Change Adaptation Initiative), IPAR (Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rural), ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics), ASSAR (Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions), University of Ghana/START, University of Gambia. The regional partner institutions ECOWAS, WASCAL and CILSS were also present and very engaged in the workshop.
Full workshop report – English
Full workshop report – French
April 03 – 05, 2017
Representatives from a number of Caribbean countries participated in this workshop, which took place in Kingston, Jamaica: Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago. Scientific inputs were provided by the country representatives and colleagues from the University of the West Indies and the University of the Bahamas.
IMPACT provides support to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and Least Developed Countries (LDCs) for regional preparatory meetings ahead of UNFCCC sessions
12 -14 October 2017: Pacific SIDS Climate Change Ministers and Negotiators, COP 23 Preparatory Meeting, Nadi, Fiji
31 October – 03 November 2018: Pacific SIDS Climate Change Ministers and Negotiators, Preparatory Meeting COP 24, Nadi, Fiji
05 – 08 November 2019: Pacific SIDS Climate Change Ministers and Negotiators, COP 25 Preparatory Meeting and Training, Apia, Samoa
25 – 27 September 2017: CARICOM Climate Change Ministers and Negotiators, COP 23 Preparatory Meeting, Antigua and Barbuda
12 – 14 November 2018: CARICOM Climate Change Ministers and Negotiators, COP 24 Preparatory Meeting, Bridgetown, Barbados
17 – 18 October 2019: CARICOM Climate Change Ministers and Negotiators, COP 25 Preparatory Meetings, St. Kitts and Nevis
02 – 06 October 2017: LDC Group Strategy and Technical Meeting, COP 23 Preparatory Meeting, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
12 – 16 October 2018: LDC Group Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
22 – 25 October 2019: LDC Group Ministerial and Strategy Meeting on Climate Change, Thimphu, Bhutan