Riibeta Abeta

About

Regional Planning Officer (Climate Change, Marine Conservation and Environment Safeguards) ,

GIZ

Summary

I'm a trained Environment & Climate Change Adaptation Practitioner/Specialist with over 10 years of practice and consultancy experiences. Provided technical advice to Governments of Fiji, Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu on policy changes, marine resource use, climate change. Area of expertise includes; policy analysis, environment management systems, V&A, M&E, mainstreaming climate change adaptation interventions into planning processes, MPA, community engagement and workshop facilitation. Authored book on, Climate Change Adaptation and the Coastal Zone of S.Tarawa (2014), "Kiribati: the inter-linkages and the array of adaptation barriers and limits". Co-authored the "Kiribati Second National Communication Report to the UNFCCC" (2013) and other technical reports.

Qualifications and credentials

Masters in Climate Change Adaptation, 2009-2010, Completed, University of Sunshine Coast

Bachelor of Science, 1999-2001, Completed, University of South Pacific

Sustainable Development Training, 2000, Completed, National University of Singapore

Australian/New Zealand EIA Professional Society, Member, 2010

English, Excellent, Excellent, Excellent, Excellent

Work experience

M & E specialist

Knowledge management specialist

Proposal writing/Report writing

Capacity building specialist

Environmental and social safeguards specialist

Climate Change Adaptation

Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources Development, Fisheries Officer (Research & Aquaculture), Kiribati

Ministry of Environment, Lands and Agricultural Development, Senior Environment Officer (Climate Change & Environment Enforcement), Kiribati

Snowy Mountain Engineering Corporation International Ltd, Environmental Safeguard Consultant, Kiribati

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Regional Planning Officer, Fiji

South Tarawa Sanitation Improvement Sector Project In Kiribati, Ministry of Public Works & Utilities Govt of Kiribati, Environmental Safeguard Consultant, Kiribati, - Basic Environment Impact Assessment Report

Benthic Ecology, Coastal & Turbidity Baseline Study, Environmentally Safe Aggregates for Tarawa Project, Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources Devel, Team Leader, Kiribati, -Conduct field study and deliver a baseline report on status of benthic ecology, coastline & turbidity of the ESAT Channel in Betio, Tarawa. Kiribati.

Publications

Second Communication under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCC, http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/natc/kirnc2.pdf

Climate Change Adaptation and the Coastal Zone of S.Tarawa, Kiribati: The inter-linkages and the array of adaptation barriers and limits, Lambert Academic Publishing, http://www.amazon.com/Climate-Adaptation-Coastal-S-Tarawa-Kiribati/dp/3659506591