c) In cooperation with the Council of Regional Organizations in the Pacific (CROP) and the co-sponsors of GCOS, SPREP will facilitate the development of a Pacific GCOS Action Plan that will incorporate the priorities raised in the country reports, such as those in the initial National Communications, the SPREP-led Pacific Meteorological Services Needs Analysis Project (PMSNAP), and the outcomes of the Pacific Islands Conference on Climate Change, Climate Variability and Sea Level Rise held in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, April 3-7 2000 and the findings of the Pacific Islands GCOS workshop held in Apia, Samoa, August 14-15, 2000. In order to take advantage of opportunities to report to the UNFCCC, this regional Action Plan should be completed no later than June 2001 and, if possible, presented to the Seventh Conference of the Parties (COP7) to the UNFCCC deliberations in July 2001. To facilitate this process, the workshop participants recommend the creation of a core drafting team comprised of 4-6 people from SPREP members.
Requests that:
(1) SPREP and GCOS Secretariat ensure that this resolution is widely distributed within the Pacific region and with appropriate collaborating partners;
(2) SPREP on behalf of SPREP Pacific Island Country members source PDF A and other resources to assist with the development of the Action Plan and related GEF proposal
(3) SPREP, representing its member countries, in consultation with other CROP organizations, use the information developed in the Action Plan to prepare a Full Project proposal to potential donors, including GEF, to fund improvements in observing systems for climate and in other activities related to climate observing systems in the Pacific region; and
(4) Development partners consider financing appropriate elements of the Action Plan
(5) Parties to the UNFCCC in the region and the GCOS Secretariat bring this resolution to the attention of the COP and its Subsidiary Bodies.
(6) NMHSs become actively involved in the preparation of their National reports on activities related to systematic observation, as invited by the parties to the UNFCCC in Decision 5/CP.5.
