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Voices of Pacific Women: Tekura Moeka’a
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 24, 2024
Negotiating a Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution including in the Marine Environment 23 April 2024, Ottawa, Canada - For this young Cook Islands woman, she found it was a matter of “fight or flight” when it came to her very first UN...
Kiribati: IMF Executive Board Concludes 2013 Article IV Consultation
International Monetary Fund
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June 6, 2013
Public Information Notice (PIN) No. 13/65 June 6, 2013 Public Information Notices (PINs) form part of the IMF's efforts to promote transparency of the IMF's views and analysis of economic developments and policies. With the consent of the country...
Global hydrographic community grows with 100th country joining the IHO
International Hydrographic Organization
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June 14, 2024
Home News Global hydrographic community grows with 100th country joining the IHO Published: 14/06/2024 - 11:05 The Republic of Kiribati has officially become the 100th Member State of the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), marking a...
Kiribati: 2013 Article IV Consultation Concluding Statement of the IMF Mission
International Monetary Fund
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April 19, 2013
Describes the preliminary findings of IMF staff at the conclusion of certain missions (official staff visits, in most cases to member countries). Missions are undertaken as part of regular (usually annual) consultations under Article IV of the...
FACT SHEET: Obama Administration Announces New Policies to Promote Conservation and Build Resilience to Climate Change, with a focus on Pacific Islands
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September 1, 2016
In celebration of today’s opening of the World Conservation Congress, which the United States is hosting for the first time, President Obama last night addressed leaders from Pacific Island Conference of Leaders and the World Conservation...
IMF Executive Board Concludes 2016 Article IV Consultation with Kiribati
International Monetary Fund
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September 9, 2016
September 9, 2016 On September 7, 2016, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation 1 with Kiribati. Kiribati’s recent economic performance has been strong. Growth is estimated to have reached...
Tuvalu hosts Fourth Clean Pacific Roundtable
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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August 5, 2024
3 August 2024, Funafuti Tuvalu - The Government and the people of Tuvalu have embraced the opportunity to host the Fourth Clean Pacific Roundtable (4CPRT) at the Rt. Hon. Dr Sir Tomasi Puapua Convention Centre (TPCC), Funafuti, from 5 – 9 August...
Remarks by the President to Leaders from the Pacific Island Conference of Leaders and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature World Conservation Congress
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September 1, 2016
East-West Center Honolulu, Hawaii 6:37 P.M. HST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much. Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you. Everybody, please have a seat. Well, welcome to Hawaii. (Laughter.) AUDIENCE MEMBERS: Aloha! THE PRESIDENT: Aloha! (Laughter.) You...
Pacific Islands region waste management challenges under the microscope at Fourth Clean Pacific Roundtable
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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August 6, 2024
5 August 2024, Funafuti Tuvalu - Officials and delegates at the Fourth Clean Pacific Roundtable (4CPRT) have been urged to develop tailor-made waste disposal and management measures that are of practical use and application to circumstances in...
Ottawa one step closer to a plastics treaty
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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May 7, 2024
01 May 2023, Ottawa Canada - Pacific delegates are leaving Ottawa Canada exhausted but reasonably satisfied with an advanced draft text of an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment. They...
Why the INC process matters to the Kingdom of Tonga and Solomon Islands
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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February 14, 2024
14 February 2024, Auckland NZ - To say the impact of plastic pollution on the Kingdom of Tonga is a problem would be stating it quite mildly. Like most Pacific islands who are at the forefront of the impacts of the escalating plastic pollution...
Climate, Environment, and Conservation: Republic of Kiribati's Independence Day
U.S. Department of State
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July 11, 2011
Press Statement Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC July 11, 2011 On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I am delighted to send best wishes to the people of the Republic of Kiribati as you celebrate...
How the Kingdom of Tonga is dealing with the scourge of End of Life Vehicles
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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August 7, 2024
6 August 2024, Funafuti Tuvalu - The mountain of End of Life Vehicles (ELVs) is an imposing challenge for the Kingdom of Tonga. Statistics show that the main island of Tongatapu has accumulated more than 30,000 ELVs over the years – and with more...
Voices of Pacific Women: Kathleen Taituave Afereti
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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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...
Samoa, as Chair of AOSIS, flags special circumstances of SIDS at plastic treaty talks
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 25, 2024
24 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - As officials and negotiators sift through the revised draft text of the international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)...
Pacific delegates advocate for a key regional aspiration to be included in the plastic treaty text
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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May 1, 2024
In the final hours of the fourth round of negotiations on the revised zero draft of the global plastics treaty, Pacific delegates remain steadfast in their resolve to have a key regional aspiration on the sustainable production of primary plastic...
Pacific SIDS calls for global solidarity in addressing the plastics crisis, asks for high ambition
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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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 Voice the “moral compass” in global push for plastics treaty
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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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...
Empowering Pacific negotiators in plastics treaty negotiations
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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February 12, 2024
12 February 2024, Auckland NZ - The road for Pacific countries to the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment...
Bridge to Busan Declaration open for signing at Plastics Treaty talks
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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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...