SPREP
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...
12 Jun 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
11 June 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), supported by the Pacific Media Assistance Scheme (PACMAS), announced a “new approach” to providing news from the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20), which aims to help develop the skills of young Pacific islanders interested in journalism.
In addition to print and video coverage provided by two senior reporters from the Pacific, two young Pacific islanders – as young...
11 Jun 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
June 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has announced that 13 ocean robots were deployed in equatorial waters near Kiribati to conduct ocean monitoring. The robots, automatic ocean sensors known as Argo floats, will enable scientists to monitor the ocean processes behind El Niño and La Niña events.
The Argo floats collect temperature and salinity data between 2,000 metres (6000 feet) of depth and the ocean surface. Each Argo float is equipped with a...
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)...
04 Jun 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
1 June 2012: Leaders at the Sixth Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting (PALM 6), representing 15 Pacific Island Forum (PIF) countries, discussed ways to build relationships and enhance cooperation with Japan. They focused on responses to natural disasters, environmental issues and climate change, sustainable development and human security, people-to-people exchanges and maritime issues. PALM 6 took place in Okinawa, Japan, from 25-26 May 2012.
Events held concurrently with PALM 6 included, among...
