SIDE EVENT: A Sustainable Blue Pacific Continent – Scaling up action through Ocean Science, Policy and Traditional knowledge
Ocean Science Fact: Sea level rise is not only due to melting glaciers
Did you know that sea level rise is not only due to melting glaciers? About one third of today’s sea level rise is due to thermal expansion of the ocean – as the ocean warms, water expands and takes up more space. The other two-thirds come from…
Green News: Vanuatu - Addressing climate change is safeguarding human rights
Bob Loughman Weibur, Prime minister of the Republic of Vanuatu, published an opinion piece in Newsweek, enhancing the fact that the climate crisis is a human rights crisis. According to him, local farmers and fishers, island women, men and young people…
Hot off the press: Why our future relies on health of our ocean
The Pacific Community presents a selection of products published by SPC and our partners highlighting the important scientific and technical work that we are currently undertaking across the Blue Pacific Continent.
Why do we need a Centre for Ocean…
Green News: Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction
Photo: Shutterstock - Children play in Lavena village on Teveuni island, Fiji.
More than 30 million people were displaced because of disasters in 2020 alone, and this number is likely to rise with the mounting severity and number of climate-…
The Pacific Community Centre for Ocean Science (PCCOS) Brochure
Ocean Science Fact: Some sharks living today were born in the 1600s
Some shark species can live very long lives. The Greenland shark, which lives in the Artic, has the longest known lifespan of all vertebrate species. It can live for over 400 years, and potentially much longer.
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Pacific Territories Commit to Climate Resilience and Explore Extension of Pacific Territories Regional Project for Sustainable Ecosystem Management (PROTEGE)
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