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Capital City: 
Avarua
Languages: 
English, Cook Islands Māori, or "Rarotongan," and Pukapukan

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Country Strategies: 
Title Programme Name Programme Description Year
Disaster management Strategy - Cook Islands Strengthening Disaster Management and Mitigation Strategy Description 2007
Energy Strategy - Cook Islands Pacific Regional Energy Assessment: Cook Islands National Report 2004
UNFCCC Nat Comm - Cook Islands The Cook Islands Initial National Communication Strategy Description 2000
NBSAP - Cook Islands Cook Islands Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan Strategy Description 2002
NSDS - Cook Islands National Sustainable Development Plan 2007
18 Sep 2012 | 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 | 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 | 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...
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