Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation and South Pacific climate

2001 ◽  
Vol 21 (14) ◽  
pp. 1705-1721 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.J. Salinger ◽  
J.A. Renwick ◽  
A.B. Mullan
Keyword(s):  
South Pacific ◽  
Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation ◽  
South Pacific Climate

scholarly journals Beyond burdens and climate refugees: a stocktake of international responsibility-sharing and South Pacific climate-induced migration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daisy McElwain
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
International Agreements ◽  
Emissions Reduction ◽  
Ability To Pay ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Polluter Pays Principle ◽  
International Responsibility ◽  
South Pacific Climate ◽  
Climate Refugees

<p>This paper provides a ‘stocktake’ of common responsibility-sharing principles and goals in international agreements on climate change and refugees/migration to date and investigates how these principles might inform an Oceania agreement to deal with the emerging issue of South Pacific climate-induced migration. Where international agreements on climate change and refugees/migration overlap I identify a set of responsibility-sharing principles and goals and investigate their compatibility with the needs and demands of Pacific communities facing the prospect of climate-induced displacement. In this paper, I tap into ongoing political and academic debates concerning if and how we ought to differentiate states’ environmental responsibilities. I ask whose responsibility is it to address climate-induced migration? And what exactly are they responsible for? I find that international agreements on climate change and refugees/migration sufficiently overlap with the needs of Pacific communities to provide us with five common responsibility-sharing principles and goals that are potentially useful in the South Pacific climate migration context: the ability to pay principle, polluter pays principle, prevention, emissions reduction and (funding) adaptation. Notwithstanding responsibility-sharing’s negotiation difficulties, these responsibility-sharing principles have significant congruence with Pacific communities’ needs and demands, and thus provide us with a valuable starting point for an Oceania agreement on climate-induced migration that is informed first and foremost by the needs of those who may have to leave their homes.</p>

Evidence for tropical South Pacific climate change during the Younger Dryas and the Bølling–Allerød from geochemical records of fossil Tahiti corals

2009 ◽  
Vol 288 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 96-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryuji Asami ◽  
Thomas Felis ◽  
Pierre Deschamps ◽  
Kimio Hanawa ◽  
Yasufumi Iryu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Younger Dryas ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
South Pacific Climate

scholarly journals Beyond burdens and climate refugees: a stocktake of international responsibility-sharing and South Pacific climate-induced migration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daisy McElwain
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
International Agreements ◽  
Emissions Reduction ◽  
Ability To Pay ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Polluter Pays Principle ◽  
International Responsibility ◽  
South Pacific Climate ◽  
Climate Refugees

<p>This paper provides a ‘stocktake’ of common responsibility-sharing principles and goals in international agreements on climate change and refugees/migration to date and investigates how these principles might inform an Oceania agreement to deal with the emerging issue of South Pacific climate-induced migration. Where international agreements on climate change and refugees/migration overlap I identify a set of responsibility-sharing principles and goals and investigate their compatibility with the needs and demands of Pacific communities facing the prospect of climate-induced displacement. In this paper, I tap into ongoing political and academic debates concerning if and how we ought to differentiate states’ environmental responsibilities. I ask whose responsibility is it to address climate-induced migration? And what exactly are they responsible for? I find that international agreements on climate change and refugees/migration sufficiently overlap with the needs of Pacific communities to provide us with five common responsibility-sharing principles and goals that are potentially useful in the South Pacific climate migration context: the ability to pay principle, polluter pays principle, prevention, emissions reduction and (funding) adaptation. Notwithstanding responsibility-sharing’s negotiation difficulties, these responsibility-sharing principles have significant congruence with Pacific communities’ needs and demands, and thus provide us with a valuable starting point for an Oceania agreement on climate-induced migration that is informed first and foremost by the needs of those who may have to leave their homes.</p>

scholarly journals A New Paradigm for South Pacific Climate Variability and Predictability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiale Lou ◽  
Terence O'Kane ◽  
Neil Holbrook
Keyword(s):  
Climate Variability ◽  
Southern Oscillation ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Decadal Climate Variability ◽  
The South ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Coherent Noise ◽  
Decadal Climate ◽  
South Pacific Climate ◽  
Pacific Climate Variability

Abstract Pacific climate variability is largely understood based on El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the North Pacific focused Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO) and/or the whole of Pacific region interdecadal Pacific oscillation – which respectively represent the dominant modes of interannual and decadal climate variability. However, the role of the South Pacific, including atmospheric drivers and cross-scale interactions between interannual and decadal climate variability, has received considerably less attention. Here we propose a new paradigm for South Pacific climate variability whereby the Pacific-South American (PSA) mode, characterised by two mid-tropospheric modes (PSA1 and PSA2), provides coherent noise forcing that acts to excite multiple spatiotemporal scales of oceanic responses in the upper South Pacific Ocean ranging from seasonal to decadal. While PSA1 has long been recognised as highly correlated with ENSO, we find that PSA2 is critically important in generating a sea surface temperature (SST) quadrupole pattern in the extratropical South Pacific. This sets up a precursor that optimally determines the predictability and evolution of SST 9 months in advance of the peak phases of both the leading South Pacific SST mode and ENSO. Our results show that the atmospheric PSA mode is the key driver of oceanic variability in the South Pacific subtropics.

Culture and leadership: Project GLOBE in the South Pacific

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony R. Paquin ◽  
Reinout E. de Vries ◽  
Raghuvar D. Pathak ◽  
Rafia Naz
Keyword(s):  
South Pacific ◽  
The South

Tourism Development in the South Pacific: The Cases of Nauru and Tuvalu

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Towner ◽  
Semisi Taumoepeau
Keyword(s):  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The South ◽  
South Pacific Ocean ◽  
Economic Survival ◽  
Processing Centre ◽  
Remote Island ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Tuvalu and Nauru are isolated developing island nations located in the South Pacific Ocean. In contrast to the established larger Pacific destinations such as Fiji and Tahiti, the tourism industries on both Tuvalu and Nauru are in their infancy. Tourism development in these remote island nations faces a myriad of challenges which include a lack of infrastructure, environmental susceptibility, economic vulnerability, difficulties with access and considerable distances from major tourist markets. This paper reviews tourism on Tuvalu and Nauru and evaluates their current situation regarding potential tourism development through workshops with relevant stakeholders, surveys and subsequent SWOT analysis. The results of the paper outlined a large number of challenges faced by Tuvalu and Nauru due to their geographic location but also highlighted that both Islands possess fascinating and unique features that have the potential to attract niche tourism markets. A key finding of this paper is that the tourism stimulus or potential attraction can also be the chief threat to the islands’ economic survival hence the two edges of the sword. Further research is required to assess the effect of the withdrawal of the Refugee Processing Centre on Nauru’s economy and to evaluate the impact of climate change on Tuvalu’s society and potential adaption strategies.

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