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National Tourism Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for Samoa 2012 – 2017.

Country/Territory
Samoa
Document type
Date
2012
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Environment gen., Food & nutrition
Keyword
Business/industry/corporations Capacity building Climate change Community management Disasters Environmental planning Financing Policy/planning Precautionary principle Risk assessment/management Sustainable development Tourism Food security
Geographical area
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC, Oceania, Polynesia, Small Island Developing States, South Pacific
Abstract

The National Tourism Climate Change Adaptation Strategy is a national policy with a sectoral approach. The timeframe of this Strategy is 5 years between 2012 and 2017. The overall purpose of this Strategy is to achieve climate change adaptation in order to increase the resilience of tourism sector to the adverse impacts of climate change and natural disasters. Therefore, this Strategy lays down actions to increase the resilience and capacity of the tourism sector to adapt, respond, prepare and recover more quickly from the impacts of climate change and natural disasters, for the long-term economic, environmental, cultural and social development of Samoa. The key objectives of this Strategy are: (I) increased resilience of the tourism sector to climate change impacts through the implementation of immediate adaptation measures, (II) development of tourist facilities and infrastructure, including key resource supply such as food, water, electricity, (III) mainstreaming climate risks into tourism related policy instruments, (IV) strengthened human capacity to identify, analyse, implement, monitor and evaluate cost-effective mitigation and adaptation measures, (V) awareness-raising at the national, sector and community levels about the need to promote and support climate change adaptation measures, and (VI) development of sustainable financing mechanisms in support of tourism climate change adaptation actions nation-wide.

Full text
English
Website
www.samoatourism.org