Scroll over the key messages (KM#1-7) to view them and select individual stories by key message.
- High and Dry: Learning from the 1997-1998 El Niño's effects on water resources in American Samoa
- Remembering What a Healthy Reef Looks Like: A community-based reef restoration and education program in Humåtak, Guam
- "The actual sea went all the way up": Coastal Flooding on Manus, Papua New Guinea, December 2008
- The Cloud Nasara: The development and use of the ENSO Handbook in Vanuatu
- Seesawing: Coastal Change in Ngaraard, Palau
- Finding CLEWS in the Rain: The development of MalaClim, the Solomon Islands' climate early warning system (CLEWS) for Malaria
- In the Dark of Monday Morning: The Coastal flooding on Majuro in March 2014
- Finding CLEWS in the Rain: The development of MalaClim, the Solomon Islands' climate early warning system (CLEWS) for Malaria
- The Cloud Nasara: The development and use of the ENSO Handbook in Vanuatu
- Symbiosis: Responding to Coral Bleaching in the Two Samoas
- High and Dry: Learning from the 1997-1998 El Niño's effects on water resources in American Samoa
- "I'm Not a Professional Weather Person - I'm a Pearl Farmer": Adapting Pearl Farming Best Practices to Climate Variability and Change
- "It's Falling from the Sky but Not Hitting the Ground":Drought in the outer atolls of the Marshall Islands in 2013
- Finding CLEWS in the Rain: The development of MalaClim, the Solomon Islands' climate early warning system (CLEWS) for Malaria
- Symbiosis: Responding to Coral Bleaching in the Two Samoas
- "I'm Not a Professional Weather Person - I'm a Pearl Farmer": Adapting Pearl Farming Best Practices to Climate Variability and Change
- Remembering What a Healthy Reef Looks Like: A community-based reef restoration and education program in Humåtak, Guam
About Climate Stories
NOAA, working through the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), undertook a two-year project (2012 to 2014) to support climate change adaptation in the Pacific Small Island Developing States. The project involved conducting a series of activities to enhance scientific and technical capacity of Pacific Island Developing States to provide climate services. With an emphasis on engagement and consultation between service providers and users, activities were carried out over the past two years and included building of regional networks, packaging and dissemination of existing climate-related products and services; development of new or enhanced products and services; and advancement of sub-regional and in-country training and core capacity-building.
An important component of the capacity building approach was the development and conduct of the Climate Service Dialogs, 3-day workshops, designed to share climate knowledge, diagnose and enhance existing climate services, and build climate stories that can be shared within different sectors and communities. The Pacific Islands Climate Storybook is a compilation of technical material, process guides, and activities that were used to conduct the Climate Services Dialogues and build Climate Stories. Through the Climate Services Dialog process, local storytellers share climate knowledge and lessons learned as well as diagnose climate services to generate story topics that can be developed further into climate stories that include key messages. The materials include a model agenda reflecting process flow, breakout guidance that contains sample questions, and examples of outcomes such as historical timelines, and a climate story template. Background and technical presentations are provided associated with the various modules (e.g. Overview of Climate Services, Climate Change and Variability Concepts, and Communicating Climate). In addition, a set of Climate Stories created during the Dialogues is included that incorporates experiential knowledge and scientific data. These stories help inform regional and local decision makers about the impacts of climate change and variability, highlighting key messages and best practices.