Resolution Concerning the Improvement of Global Climate Observing Systems in the Pacific Region 14-15 August 2000, Apia, Samoa
The participants1 in the GCOS Pacific Island Regional Implementation Workshop on Improving Global Climate Observing Systems,
Welcome:
The opportunity provided by the GCOS Secretariat in partnership with SPREP, and with the support of WMO, UNEP, IOC, ICSU, to identify ways to improve observing systems for climate and in other activities related to climate observing systems in the Pacific region
Recalling:
(1) That the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has encouraged Parties to actively support capacity-building in developing countries to enable them to collect, exchange, and utilize data to meet local, national, regional, and international needs (Decision 14/CP.4), and has recognized the need to identify priority capacity-building needs related to participation in systematic observation (Decision 5/CP.5);
(2) That the COP to the UNFCCC has determined that the Global Environment Facility (GEF) should provide funding to developing countries to build capacity for participation in systematic observational networks to reduce scientific uncertainties (Decision 2/CP.4);
(3) That Decision 5/CP.5 urges Parties to address deficiencies in the climate observing networks and to bring forward specific proposals for that purpose and to identify the capacity-building needs and funding required in developing countries to enable them to collect, exchange, and utilize data on a continuing basis in pursuance of the UNFCCC;
(4) The role and importance of the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) to facilitate systematic observation regionally;
1 American Samoa, Australia, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, USA, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Intergovernmental Oceanic Commission (IOC) Perth Office, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Forum Secretariat (FORSEC), South Pacific Geoscience Commission (SOPAC), South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) Secretariat, East West Center, Hawaii, National Tidal Facility (NTF), Flinders University, Australia.
