Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

The "Children take action – A Climate Change Story" storybook is an ideal resource to accompany the new syllabus and teacher guides currently being developed for Kiribati primary schools. The new syllabus integrates key elements of climate change using education for sustainable development principles to work towards the nation's vision to "nurture our children and young people to become wise and worthwhile citizens able to adapt to, and participate in, their changing world".  The Curriculum Development and Resource Centre (CDRC) will use the book to improve literacy skills in te-Kiribati and English. In addition, the story book will help children learn, in a very simplified way, the basics of climate change and its impacts on our environment ...
Download PDF (60 MB) high res - Kiribati (request from IRC)
Download PDF (3 MB) low res - English
 

The 2013 Pacific Islands Regional Marine Spill Contingency Plan (PACPLAN) provides the framework for cooperative responses to major marine spills in the Pacific islands region. PACPLAN was originally developed in 2000, and underwent extensive review and modernisation in 2012. This was carried out through a series of discussion and consultation workshops between host countries (Australia, France, New Zealand and the United States) and their respective Pacific island countries and territories. Funding for the review was provided through the IMO. The updated PACPLAN is to be submitted for endorsement at the 24^th SPREP Meeting in September 2013. Updates to PACPLAN include consideration of recent developments in international and regional conventions; changes in regional economic and political circumstances (for example the enduring relationships between Samoa and New Zealand); an updated regional oil spill risk assessment; and an updated guide for the PACPLAN activation processes. The new PACPLAN provides a contemporary approach to the management of major oil spill response in the region.