Cook Islands
23 Nov 2012
Convened by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), this two-week course is open to participants from the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Marshall Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. The course will focus on landfill and dumpsite management, leachate treatment and management, and environmental monitoring. [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/waste-...
22 Nov 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
19 November 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), together with the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), and UN Women, convened the “Regional Gender Mainstreaming Stocktake and Gender Statistics Meeting,” in Nadi, Fiji, in early November.
Attended by representatives from the Pacific region, the meeting focused on sharing and discussing information gleaned from SPC’s work undertaking “gender stocktakes.” According to SPC, gender stocktakes were completed from 2009-2010 for...
20 Nov 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
5 November 2012: The Government of New Zealand has announced that, building on its support to Pacific Island countries in identifying clean and affordable energy solutions, it will host a Pacific energy summit in March 2013. The announcement comes after news that Tokelau is effectively 100% solar powered, through technical assistance from New Zealand.
According to the New Zealand Government, a third solar power system was recently installed in Tokelau, as part of the NZ$8.5 million Tokelau...
19 Nov 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
15 November 2012: The 43rd Meeting of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council adopted a Work Program that amounts to US$174 million and aims to benefit 63 countries.
The Council convened in Washington, DC, US, from 13-15 November 2012, at International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters. Representatives of governments, international organizations and civil society organizations (CSOs) attended the three-day meeting, which also included the 13th meeting of the Council for the Least Developed...
16 Nov 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
1 November 2012: Seven Pacific islands delivered the outcomes of their Cost Benefit Analyses (CBAs), during the conclusion workshop of the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change Project (PACC). The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) began the series of trainings in November 2011, to support countries in conducting CBAs and thereby improve the selection and design of adaptation projects.
The conclusion workshop took place in Apia, Samoa, from 30 October- 2 November...
