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Ms Sandeep Singh, Director of the Department of Environment of Fiji

“Heart-breaking to note that ninety percent of current plastics production ends up in the environment” – Fiji at global negotiations for a plastic pollution agreement

Dec 2,2022

By Sosikeni Lesa

Waste Management and Pollution Control

Database launched to assess past climate change adaptation actions in the Pacific

Dec 1,2022

By Christine Tuioti

Climate Change Resilience

Deputy Permanent Representative, Republic of Kiribati to the United Nations, Ms Josephine Moote

Kiribati calls for the special circumstances of Small Islands Developing States to be factored in new global agreement on plastic pollution

Dec 1,2022

By Sosikeni Lesa

Waste Management and Pollution Control

Mr Veari Kula, Papua New Guinea’s Conservation and Environment Protection Authority (CEPA) Infrastructure Utilities and Convention Branch Manager

PNG spotlights key role of sustainable financial mechanism at INC1

Dec 1,2022

By Sosikeni Lesa

Waste Management and Pollution Control

Tuvalu’s Department of Waste Management, Mr Epu Falenga

Tuvalu says urgency of plastic crisis demands international cooperation

Dec 1,2022

By Sosikeni Lesa

Waste Management and Pollution Control

“I hope that in my lifetime, I will no longer have to pick up plastics of unknown origins on my grandfather’s beach”

Dec 1,2022

By Sosikeni Lesa

Waste Management and Pollution Control

“We must not wait until we have killed off all our marine life, replaced by plastic,” – Cook Islands appeals to global community.

Nov 30,2022

By nanettew

Waste Management and Pollution Control

The President of Uruguay, His Excellency Mr Luis Lacalle Pou

Uruguayan tango, football lighten mood as plight of SIDS highlighted at global plastics treaty talks

Nov 29,2022

By Sosikeni Lesa

Waste Management and Pollution Control

Pacific Islands takes on fight against plastic pollution on global stage

Nov 29,2022

By nanettew

Waste Management and Pollution Control

Pacific countries are a key part of AOSIS

We have no time to waste, AOSIS urges plastics treaty negotiations

Nov 29,2022

By Sosikeni Lesa

Waste Management and Pollution Control

Nine villages from Savai’i and Upolu in Samoa have reaped the benefits from capacity building in marine rehabilitation ecosystem activities and solutions.

SPREP hosts inaugural Knowledge Café talanoa on marine ecosystem rehabilitation in Samoa

Nov 29,2022

By Sosikeni Lesa

Climate Change Resilience, General News

Impacts Analysis Methodology - Learning from the past, preparing for the future

Nov 28,2022

By Christine Tuioti

Climate Change Resilience

High Ambition Coalition shares aspirations for a fit-for-purpose global plastics treaty

Nov 28,2022

By Sosikeni Lesa

Waste Management and Pollution Control

Pacific voices to cement a strong foundation for the new global treaty on Plastic Pollution

Nov 27,2022

By Sosikeni Lesa

Waste Management and Pollution Control

‘I hope they open their ears and listen to us,’ Tuvalu at INC1 Multi Stakeholder Forum

Nov 27,2022

By Sosikeni Lesa

Waste Management and Pollution Control

Amplifying the Pacific Voice as the world begins negotiations for a proposed plastics treaty in Uruguay

Nov 27,2022

By Sosikeni Lesa

Waste Management and Pollution Control

Traditional Knowledge workshop on weather, climate and oceans helps to prepare Vanuatu for extreme weather events

Nov 25,2022

By Christine Tuioti

Climate Change Resilience

Marine species highlighted at CITES COP19

Nov 24,2022

By leannem

Island and Ocean Ecosystems

Capacity Building in Drone Mapping for Samoa

Nov 22,2022

By Christine Tuioti

Environmental Monitoring and Governance

Snubfin dolphin in Kikori region. Photo credit: Isabel Beasley/PBN

Saving Vulnerable Inshore Dolphins in Southern Papua New Guinea

Nov 21,2022

By Christine Tuioti

Island and Ocean Ecosystems

Cook Island’s National Environment Service Applauds Training Workshop on Environmental Governance and Sustainable Management.

Nov 18,2022

By Christine Tuioti

Environmental Monitoring and Governance

Enhancing capacity in the Pacific to digitise biodiversity data

Nov 18,2022

By Christine Tuioti

Island and Ocean Ecosystems

We can’t agree to anything less than the establishment of a Loss and Damage Fund, says Solomon Islands

Nov 18,2022

By nanettew

Climate Change Resilience

Australia committed to empowering an effective Pacific Islands region in the climate change negotiations.

Nov 18,2022

By nanettew

Climate Change Resilience

As incoming Chair of AOSIS, Samoa lays the groundwork at COP27, shares its vision

Nov 18,2022

By nanettew

Climate Change Resilience

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