Kiribati
18 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
14 December 2012: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) launched a publication titled “Catalysing Ocean Finance: Transforming Markets to Restore and Protect the Global Ocean,” in Washington, DC, US. The two-volume publication illustrates how public investment can reverse declines in global ocean health, scale up ocean planning and policy tools, leverage financial flows and transform ocean markets towards sustainability.
The publication includes a case...
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-...
16 Nov 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
1 October 2012: The Australia Maritime and Safety Authority (AMSA), in partnership with the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), hosted a workshop on the Pacific Islands Regional Marine Spill Contingency Plan (PACPLAN) in Sydney, as part of a series of five workshops held throughout the Pacific region to review and update aspects of the PACPLAN.
PACPLAN designates Australia as the primary source of assistance for marine pollution incidents in Kiribati, Nauru,...
15 Nov 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
14 November 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) coordinated the first regional training on the Pacific Climate Change Portal for national counterparts. Participants discussed user needs and the establishment of a network of climate change portal editors and users.
The training, which took place at the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Suva, Fiji, on 6-8 November 2012, equipped participants from the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga,...
12 Nov 2012
Convened by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), this 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 various waste management techniques, including policy and strategic approaches to integrated solid waste management, hazardous waste management and other key waste management...
