Vanuatu
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...
12 Nov 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
October 2012: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the European Commission have released the June 2012 issue of the newsletter on the Multilateral Environment Agreements in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP MEAs) Project. The newsletter features a guest article on the ways in which pesticide management contributes to the implementation of Multilateral Environment Agreements (MEAs).
The article by Mark Davis and Francesca Mancini, Pesticide Risk Reduction Group, Food and...
06 Nov 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
5 November 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has announced that the Japan Technical Cooperation Project for the Promotion of Regional Initiative on Solid Waste Management (J-PRISM) programme, a five-year project funded by the Government of Japan, is successfully building the capacity of Pacific Island countries through a “learning-by-doing” approach. J-PRISM is coordinated in partnership with SPREP.
According to SPREP, J-PRISM activities are centered...
24 Oct 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
23 October 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), on a unified approach to coordination of energy security strategies around the Pacific.
According to SPC, the MoU recognizes the key role of each agency in promoting renewable energy in the pursuit of energy security in the Pacific, and outlined the mutual interest of SPC and IRENA to explore collaborative...
15 Oct 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
11 October 2012: The World Risk Report 2012, published by the Alliance Development Works (Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft) in collaboration with the UN University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and The Nature Conservancy, focuses on the theme of environmental degradation and disasters, assessing disaster risk based on information from 173 countries.
The report’s centerpiece is its World Risk Index that identifies countries and regions at high risk of disasters based on 28...
