";s:4:"text";s:5532:"A National Climate Change Policy and Joint National Action Plan 2018-2028 provide strategies for climate actions.
It is the only Pacific Island nation that has not been colonised.
The combination of coastal developments such as the mining of beach sand, sea level rise and extreme events caused by climate change, have led to coastal degradation. Tonga’s climate is tropical. European Union and GIZ Pacific hands over Mangrove Restoration Programs and Coastal Protection Structures to the Government of Tonga.Despite the COVID-19 global pandemic, our function of protecting the Ozone layer cannot be neglectedRegional Virtual Training on Nationally Determined Contributions
Its economy is highly dependent on climate sensitive sectors such agriculture, fisheries and tourism and a limited resource base that is sensitive to external shocks.Tonga's Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MECC) is the focal point for the country's environmental governance and all mitigation and adaptation activities. Daily high temperatures will become more extreme, with more severe floods and drought. Coral reefs, mangroves and beaches are the main environmental components of the coast which are under threat from the effects of climate change. June 30, 2020
It suffered the highest loss from natural disasters in the world (as a ratio to GDP) in 2018 and is among the top five over the last decade (Table 1). Droughts occur during the dry season, contributing to a depletion of potable water. Tonga is committed to climate and disaster risk management, and seeks to gain the know-how, tools, and financing needed to achieve long-term climate resilience. Rising sea levels will cause more flooding, coastal erosion and contaminate fresh water. Simple narratives can help you interpret and extract summaries of potential climate change impacts at the sector level.This section allows you to explore the susceptibility of livelihoods and natural systems to impacts from climate variability and change and facilitate the exploration of socioeconomic and development data and its relationships with natural hazards vulnerable areas.This section allows you to explore the climate information from multiple climate indicators and present them with simple, embedded interpretation for an informative, high-level summary of the potential for future climate change impacts on key socioeconomic sectors. The country is also dependent on foreign aid. Overall, Tonga's infrastructure is highly exposed to all natural hazards, and will be increasingly so with climate change. Climate change will make this worse. The Department follows the Climate Change Policy (2016), JNAP (2018-2028) that align to the Tonga Strategic Development Framework II (2015-2025) together with the Framework for Resilient Development in the Pacific (2017-2030) and International obligations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kigali Amendment.