The Tarawa Climate Change Conference (TCCC), was held in the Republic of Kiribati from 9 to 10 November 2010.
The purpose of the conference was to support the initiative of the President of Kiribati, Anote Tong, to hold a consultative forum between vulnerable states and their partners with a view of creating an enabling environment for multi-party negotiations under the auspices of the UNFCCC.
The conference was the successor event to the Climate Vulnerable Forum held in November 2009 in the Maldives, when eleven climate vulnerable countries signed the Bandos Island declaration pledging to show moral leadership and commence greening their economies by voluntarily committing to achieving carbon neutrality.
[1] The TCCC was an advocacy and partnership building event embedded in the overall context of global and regional (Pacific) consultations on climate change.
China, Canada, India, the United States, Britain, the European Union, Japan, New Zealand, Australia and most Pacific Island countries Kiribati Mexico Maldives, Bangladesh Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Marshall Islands Lesotho, Solomon Islands Grenada Yemen Australia, European Union, France, Japan, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America Brazil, India, People's Republic of China, South Africa UNDP, PREVENT Project (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), other facilitators UNFCCC Secretariat, IPCC, FAO, PIFS, SPREP, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), World Bank, Greenpeace/WWF, Pacific Conference of Churches, Pacific Calling Partnership, Pacific Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (PIANGO) AAP (Aus), NPR (US), The Guardian (UK) and others