SPC
18 Jun 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
13 June 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) convened a workshop aimed to transfer the results of SPC’s recent vulnerability assessment, titled “Vulnerability of Tropical Pacific Fisheries and Aquaculture to Climate Change,” and to raise awareness of the impacts of climate change on fisheries and aquaculture in the region.
The meeting, which took place in Noumea, New Caledonia, from 5-8 June 2012, was attended by fisheries...
12 Jun 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
8 June 2012: The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) has reported that the Council of Regional Organisations in the Pacific (CROP) has recalled its statement on “Collaborating to Support Effective Responses to Climate Change,” during a meeting of the CROP Executives Subcommittee on Climate Change (CES-CCC).
The PIFS Secretary General is the permanent Chair of CROP, and, together with the Director General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), co-Chairs...
07 Jun 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
5 June 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) has reported that the Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA): Pacific Small Island States project held its first regional steering committee meeting in Suva, Fiji, from 28–29 May 2012. GCCA is a global EU-supported initiative aimed at strengthening dialogue and cooperation on climate change in developing countries most vulnerable to climate change.
Pacific countries involved in the project include the Cook Islands, the Federated States...
07 Jun 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
5 June 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) has signed a letter of agreement with the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) mapping out the joint development of an integrated regional strategy for disaster risk management and climate change by 2015.
According to SPC, the new integrated regional strategy for disaster risk management and climate change will replace the two separate existing regional frameworks: the Pacific Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)...
06 Jun 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
1 June 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) convened a training session and consultation with Fiji’s Ministry of Primary Industries, as well as agriculture and forestry personnel, on spatial information needs to inform decision making. The session covered information and best practices in applying Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to help identify and monitor climate change and disaster risks in the agriculture and forestry sectors.
SPC notes that a number of its datasets...
