Children and Climate Change

 The ravages of climate change will be intensifying in the coming years.   Children have to be educated on the gravity of the challenges right now so FSPI has put together stories designed to convey the implications to children.

Below are ten stories commissioned by FSPI for children:

- Fading Paradise - a series of ten Climate Change stories from the Pacific Islands. (pdf file 4Mb right-click to download)

Pacific island nations contribute the least to climate-changing emissions but suffer the most from the effects of climate change such as sea-level rise and increased severity of natural occurrences such as storms.

FSPI looks at climate change and its impacts on every aspect of life in the Pacific because we know it effects on health, governance, disaster preparedness, economic development, environment and culture.

Climate change profoundly affects the regions largest and fastest growing industry, tourism, so FSPI partners for this important undertaking with the Oceania Sustainable Tourism Alliance, (www.oceaniatourismalliance.net) Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (www.sprep.org), Island Nations Climate and Oceans Program and others.

The threat posed by climate change is far too great for us to deal with alone and we will be looking for more partners in Europe, the United States and Asia.

The Secretariat for the Pacific Regional Environment programme (SPREP) has launched a number of climate initiatives which we in FSPI are pleased to support.

FSPI chairman Lelei LeLaulu was invited by SPREP to facilitate the Pacific Climate Change Workshop in Apia, Samoa in 2008.

Lelei was also present in Switzerland for the negotiations which led to the UNWTO Davos Declaration on Tourism and Climate Change