SPREP
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
6 July 2011: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has reported on the Pacific Islands Greenhouse Gas Abatement through Renewable Energy Project (PIGGAREP), which is being implemented in 11 Pacific island countries.
Countries participating in the US$5.23 million renewable energy project are Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
PIGGAREP, funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF),...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
14 July 2011: The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) coordinated a “writeshop” that aimed to help over 40 participants prepare proposals for the Pacific Environment Community (PEC) Fund and the Pacific Islands Greenhouse Gas Abatement through Renewable Energy Project (PIGGAREP).
The “writeshop” took place early July 2011, in the Cook Islands, and involved the preparation of mock project...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
21 July 2011: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), and the Government of Samoa convened the Open Forum on Green Growth. The Forum aimed to increase understanding of green growth in a practical context in the Pacific region, and to contribute to the UN Conference for Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20) Subregional Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for Pacific Countries.
The Forum took...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
24 July 2011: The Joint Ministerial Meeting of the UN Conference for Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20) Subregional Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for Pacific Countries adopted “in principle” an outcome document, including recommendations, and agreed that Pacific Island Countries (PICs) and the Council of Regional Organisations in the Pacific (CROP) would provide comments on the document prior to 1 August 2011.
The meeting was convened in Apia, Samoa, from 21-22 July 2011, by the...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
5 August 2011: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) convened a day-long training session attended by over 15 ni-Vanuatu representatives of local media. The workshop aimed to strengthen participants’ understanding of the science of climate change, and increase their skills in translating technical information to local communities through the media.
The training took place on 5 August 2011, in Port Vila, Vanuatu. According to SPREP, it is hoped that the workshop...
