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PROJECT LAUNCH Strengthening Capacity of Border Control for Responding to Infectious Diseases in Pacific Island Countries

Government of Samoa · May 3, 2023

SAMOA, May 3 - Speech By UNDP RR, Jorn Sorensen On behalf Dr Simona Marinescu – 2 May 2023 (Prime Minister’s Lounge, Lava Hotel, Apia) Honourable Senta Keisuke, Ambassador of Japan to Samoa Peseta Noumea Simi, CEO, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and...

Pacific Tourism Organisation Partners with Papua New Guinea Tourism to Drive Data Excellence for Sustainable Development

Pacific Tourism Organisation · May 17, 2024

The Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO) in collaboration with the Papua New Guinea Tourism Promotion Authority (PNGTPA) conducted a week-long in-country workshop (May 13-17) focused on data initiatives and the Digital Measurement and Benchmarking...

FFC Officials conclude 133rd Meeting in Nauru

Solomon Islands Government · May 15, 2024

FFC Officials conclude 133rd Meeting in Nauru Pictured from left, FFA Deputy Director General Dr Pio Manoa, NFMRA CEO Charleston Deiye, MIMRA Director Glen Joseph, and FFA Director General Dr Manu Tupou-Roosen. The FFC Officials chair was handed...

PRESS RELEASE – Electric vehicles transition on the move with discussion of two key reports

Government of Samoa · May 6, 2024

Apia, Samoa – In preparation for a Governmental fleet large scale move towards electric vehicles(EVs) in Samoa, two assessments were conducted. The results of these assessments are detailed in two reports that were discussed today – the ‘Baseline...

Samoa – ADB Pacific Disaster Resilience Program – Phase 4

Government of Samoa · March 23, 2023

SAMOA, March 23 - The Government of Samoa and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed the Grant Agreement for the assistance of US$10 million under the Pacific Disaster Resilience Program – Phase 4 on Tuesday 21 March 2023. The Honourable Mulipola...

Journey to Ottawa: Pacific countries ready to negotiate revised draft text of plastics treaty

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · April 14, 2024

12 April 2024, Apia Samoa - To say waste generation - including plastic pollution is a global problem - would be stating things quite mildly. The statistics are in fact staggering, and even more concerning especially for Pacific countries who...

Pacific countries convene to align National Biodiversity Targets to Global Biodiversity Framework

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · March 27, 2024

18 March 2024, Nadi, Fiji – A historical agreement which sets out an ambitious agenda towards the vision of living in harmony with nature, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, was adopted during the 15th Conference of the Parties to...

Pacific Voice the “moral compass” in global push for plastics treaty

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · April 21, 2024

19 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - Three days from the opening of the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment...

Pacific SIDS calls for global solidarity in addressing the plastics crisis, asks for high ambition

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · April 24, 2024

Vanuatu, speaking on behalf of the 14 Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS), has made a call for the international community to work together in fulfilling its mandate to have an international legally binding instrument on plastic...

Pacific Tourism Organisation And Its Membership To Benefit From Gender Mainstreaming Exercise

Pacific Tourism Organisation · March 8, 2023

The Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO) will partner with the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative (PSDI) to conduct an organisational gender audit and boost the mainstreaming of the economic empowerment of...

Pacific Islands calls on the plastic treaty to include legally binding obligations and implementing mechanisms to address legacy plastics

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · April 27, 2024

26 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - The plastics treaty needs to include legally binding obligations that cover the full lifecycle of plastics including addressing legacy plastic already in the marine environment. The point was raised by Samoa, as the...

Bridge to Busan Declaration open for signing at Plastics Treaty talks

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · April 30, 2024

29 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - Today at INC4 over two dozen countries have signed on to the Bridge to Busan Declaration. Launched at the Plastics Treaty negotiations, it invigorates the call for sustainable production levels of primary plastic...

Wallis & Futuna Pledges to Support Sustainable Tourism in the Pacific Region

Pacific Tourism Organisation · March 28, 2023

Wallis & Futuna affirmed its commitment to regional sustainable tourism through the endorsement of the Pacific Leader’s Sustainable Tourism Commitment (SOC) in Nadi late last week. As the 15th signatory, Wallis and Futuna has joined the Federated...

Voices of Pacific Women: Kathleen Taituave Afereti

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · April 27, 2024

Negotiating a Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution including in the Marine Environment 26 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - With a broad range of UN negotiations experience under her belt, Kathleen Taituave of Samoa, is a young negotiator...

Trusted Science must ground plastics treaty negotiations - Scientists Coalition

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · April 29, 2024

28 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - Scientific evidence shows that plastics and associated chemicals, including some bio-based plastics, are destabilising the biosphere, harming the natural environment and living organisms including humans, and...

Members of the Alliance of Small Island States comb through revised draft text of plastics treaty on eve of INC-4

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · April 19, 2024

18 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - Pacific members of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) have joined the group’s member states in Ottawa, Canada, to comb through the revised draft text of the international legally binding instrument on...

Voices of Pacific Women: Diana Hinge Salili

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · April 25, 2024

Negotiating a Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution including in the Marine Environment 24 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - Seeing this Pacific Island woman still active in the UN negotiation space is rewarding given the first time she was...

Voices of Pacific Women: Marjorie Wells

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · April 30, 2024

Negotiating a Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution including in the Marine Environment 29 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - Stepping into deep shoes at the Plastics Treaty now underway, this Pacific Islands women negotiator is showing she can...

Balancing the scales, addressing the disproportionate impact of marine plastic pollution on indigenous communities in the Pacific

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · April 25, 2024

24 April 2024, Ottawa Canada – In the village of Nacamaki on the Island of Koro in Fiji, villagers would at certain times of the year take part in a sacred ancient ceremony where they would make their way to the beach, chant songs, sound the horn...

Cook Islands joins plastic treaty proposal for chemicals of concern

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · April 28, 2024

26 April 29024, Ottawa Canada - The Cook Islands, a large ocean island state is making her mighty voice heard at the Plastics Treaty negotiations now underway. The island nation, with Rwanda, has co-sponsored a proposal by Norway on how to address...