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Halo Olgeta! Welcome to the Department of Climate Change (DOCC) website. A platform for the Department of Climate Change to share information and interact with you.

We provide an overview of the Department's roles and functions, location and key highlights of the activities carried out since its establishment in January 2019. Other relevant information’s on activities implemented by various projects around the country through the various climate change and resilience projects through the DOCC Project Management Unit (PMU). We hope you will find it to be informative and interesting to read.

I am excited to have you on board as we journey and build together in from now and beyond. The sky is our limit and the vision is to Build a Sustainable and Climate Resilient Vanuatu; and evolve into an institution that is well represented and deliver on time for its government and people into the near future.

Tankio tumas


Mike Sam Waiwai
Director
Department of Climate Change

Featured Projects

The Department of Climate Change is engaged in multiple projects across the country. Here are some of our more recent projects.

Vanuatu Rural Electrification Project (VREP)
Vanuatu Revised and Enhanced Nationally Determined Contribution
Vanuatu Coastal Adaptation Project (VCAP2)
Vanuatu Coastal Adaptation Project (VCAP)

Frequently Asked Questions

What’s the difference between climate change and global warming?
“Global warming” refers to the long-term warming of the planet. “Climate change” encompasses global warming, but refers to the broader range of changes that are happening to our planet, including rising sea levels; shrinking mountain glaciers; accelerating ice melt in Greenland, Antarctica and the Arctic; and shifts in flower/plant blooming times.
What’s the difference between climate change and global warming?
What’s the difference between weather and climate?
“Weather” refers to the more local changes in the climate we see around us, on short timescales from minutes to hours to days to weeks. Examples are familiar – rain, snow, clouds, winds, thunderstorms, heat waves and floods. “Climate” refers to longer-term averages (they may be regional or global), and can be thought of as the weather averaged over several seasons, years or decades.
What’s the difference between weather and climate?
Is it too late to prevent climate change?
Humans have caused major climate changes to happen already, and we have set in motion more changes still. Even if we stopped emitting greenhouse gases today, global warming would continue to happen for at least several more decades, if not centuries.
Is it too late to prevent climate change?

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The Department of Climate Change
Namba 2 Area, PMB 9054, Port Vila Vanuatu

(678) 22160
docc@vanuatu.gov.vu
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