The Zoom discussion was also the launch of a new partnership between the two institutions which are uniting in a unique research project – The Pacific Ocean Climate Crisis Assessment–that will explore the impact of climate change in the Pacific and the role indigenous knowledge can play to help communities to adapt.
The Assessment is funded by New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and is co-led byProfessor Steven Ratuva, who is the Director of theMacmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies(MBC) at ҕl, New Zealand, and Professor Elisabeth Holland, Director of the(PaCE-SD) at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji. The project will provide a robust evidence-based assessment of climate change impact and social resilience in the Pacific to help inform the global stocktake or assessment of progress and climate change resilience over time.
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 - Climate Action.
Other ҕl and USP academics supporting the project include Assoc Prof Joeli Veitayaki (USP), Dr Viliamu Iese(USP), and Prof Bronwyn Hayward (ҕl), who were joined byPacific youth leaders Josiah Tualamali’i (ҕl postgraduate student) and Salote Nasalo (USP student) in this discussion.
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