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Fourth Clean Pacific Roundtable advances journey towards Cleaner Pacific

9 August 2024, Funafuti Tuvalu – The Fourth Clean Pacific Roundtable (4CPRT) guided by the theme “Clean Environment. Resilient Oceans. Healthy Communities” has closed with a renewed focus to strengthen regional cooperation, collaboration,...

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

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...

Climate, Environment, and Conservation: Republic of Kiribati's Independence Day

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...

Pacific Islands gather in Funafuti for first-ever Plastic Dialogue

7 August 2024, Funafuti Tuvalu - With the community of nations deadlocked in international negotiations to conclude a global instrument to end plastic pollution by the end of 2024, a first-of-its-kind Plastic Dialogue was convened today in...

Kiribati: 2011 Article IV Consultation Concluding Statement of the IMF Mission

This statement contains our preliminary views and policy recommendations following discussions with the Kiribati authorities, development partners and the private sector. The discussions focused on policies to ensure fiscal sustainability and...

Voices of Pacific Women: Tekura Moeka’a

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...

Leaders Unite in Calling for a Price on Carbon Ahead of Paris Climate Talks

Press Release No. 15/473 October 19, 2015 For the first time, an unprecedented alliance of Heads of State, city and state leaders, with the support of heads of leading companies, have joined forces to urge countries and companies around the globe...

Global hydrographic community grows with 100th country joining the IHO

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...

FAO and ACP member states share strong focus on nutrition and climate change

FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and Patrick I. Gomes, Secretary-General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP). 15 April 2015, Brussels - FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva, in a speech today to the...

Incorporating circularity for effective management of hazardous waste in the Pacific

1 October 2024, Port Vila – Hazardous waste generated through industrial activities, energy production, healthcare, agriculture, and from the transport sector is a major waste stream in the Pacific. The challenges faced by the Pacific due to its...

Intégrer la circularité pour une gestion efficace des déchets dangereux dans le Pacifique

1er octobre 2024, Port Vila – Les déchets dangereux générés par les activités industrielles, la production d’énergie, le secteur des soins sanitaires, l’agriculture et le secteur des transports constituent un flux de déchets majeur dans le...

COP29 Concludes: Implications for the Asia-Pacific Region

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, November 28, 2024 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- The 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has concluded in Baku, Azerbaijan, marking another milestone in the global fight...

Why the INC process matters to the Kingdom of Tonga and Solomon Islands

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...

Ottawa one step closer to a plastics treaty

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...

Empowering Pacific negotiators in plastics treaty negotiations

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...

Samoa, as Chair of AOSIS, flags special circumstances of SIDS at plastic treaty talks

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)...

Voices of Pacific Women: Kathleen Taituave Afereti

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...

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

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 delegates advocate for a key regional aspiration to be included in the plastic treaty text

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

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...