The Pacific Climate Change Science Program (PCCSP) was developed to assist decision makers and planners in 14 Pacific island countries and East Timor to understand better how their climate and oceans have changed and how they may change in the future. The Program was set up to deliver early results in priority knowledge areas while providing the base upon which longer-term climate change science outcomes could be delivered.
The $20 million PCCSP, a part of the International Climate Change Adaptation Initiative (ICCAI), ran from July 2009 to December 2011 (although some activities started earlier than this date). The PCCSP is being followed by the Pacific-Australia Climate Change Science and Adaptation Planning (PACCSAP) Program, which commenced in July 2011 - the two programs ran in parallel during the six month period July-December 2011.
The three objectives of the PCCSP were to:
• Conduct a comprehensive climate change science research program aimed at providing in-depth information about past, present and future climate in 15 partner countries;
• Build the capacity of partner country scientific organisations, where feasible, to undertake scientific research to support the provision of this information; and
• Disseminate the information to partner countries and other stakeholders.