Pacific Islands Climate Services Forum

The forum is aimed at engaging climate experts in a dialogue and sharing information with resource and disaster risk managers, community planners and other decision makers, the EU GCCA in country coordinators, meteorological service representatives, postgraduate students, and the greater climate services community,as well as representatives of government ministries and other program managers and policy makers to address the following objectives:

• Raise awareness of the capabilities of meteorological, oceanic and atmospheric knowledge available and used in villages and communities to support climate adaptationplanning and disaster risk management.
• Raise awareness of the state of knowledge of climate science, impacts, and adaptation and available climat and weather service products.
• Identify capabilities, including research and models, products and services, and training, are needed to support community-based climate adaptation planning anddisaster risk management.
• Investigate organizational structures and functions at the regional level to support climate services, consistent with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) and considering user requirements and user feedback, to minimize gaps and overlaps and to align climate service activities that already exist in the region.
• Establish support for peer-to-peer climate change learning networks
• Cultivate the growth of a sustained climate assessment process that is grounded in the iterative ‘co-production of knowledge’ through dialogs among local experts, key decision makers, and scientists.

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