Solomon Islands
03 Oct 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
27 September 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) announced the completion of a climate change vulnerability and adaptation assessment in Choiseul Province, Solomon Islands. Assessing the impacts of climate change and other drivers, including population growth, unsustainable land use and logging, on land- and marine-based resources and community life in Choiseul, the study observed heightened coastal erosion caused by the removal of mangroves, coastal trees and shrubs, as well...
28 Sep 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
27 September 2012: On the third day of the High-level Debate of the 67th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), Comoros, the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Maldives, and Antigua and Barbuda underscored the importance to small island developing States (SIDS) of addressing climate change. Solomon Islands, Jamaica and Cape Verde addressed other aspects of development in SIDS.
Ikililou Dhoinine, President of Comoros, highlighted ongoing challenges posed by climate change, including heavy...
18 Sep 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
15 September 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has announced that the Government of the United Kingdom (UK) has joined SPREP. The UK announced it had joined SPREP at the 24th Post-Forum Dialogue Partners’ Meeting, which convened on 31 August 2012, in Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
According to SPREP, its members are now: American Samoa, Australia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, France,...
17 Sep 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
17 September 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), with support from the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the UN (FAO), convened the Regional Workshop on Forest Genetic Resources (FGR) in the Pacific from 4-6 September 2012, in Nadi, Fiji. Participants shared country reports on FGR and developed priorities for action for the Polynesian, Micronesian and Melanesian subregions.
The workshop agreed to recommendations on the need: for Pacific Island Countries and Territories (...
14 Sep 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
8 September 2012: Signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding for the Conservation of Cetaceans and their Habitats in the Pacific Islands Region (Pacific Cetaceans MOU) held their third meeting on 8 September 2012, in Noumea, New Caledonia, addressing the threats facing whales and dolphins in the Pacific Islands Region.
With support from representatives of collaborating organizations and country observers, the Signatories endorsed a recovery plan for the endangered humpback whale population...
