Changing Lives in the Atolls: PW Podcast S01-E04
On the atolls of Kiribati, finding and maintaining safe drinking water is an ongoing challenge. A growing population and the pressure of climate change are making this challenge even more difficult.
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RESCCUE Project in Vanuatu - Theme 3: Waste Management
RESCCUE Project in Vanuatu - Theme 4: Protect Marine Resources
RESCCUE helped develop a marine monitoring toolkit for the local communities in North Efate (Vanuatu) to use to manage their marine resources. The toolkit brings traditional knowledge, which is plentiful, and science together in a tool that is both…
RESCCUE Project - Theme 1: Efate Land Management Area (ELMA)
RESCCUE supported a rapid biodiversity assessment in the Efate Land Management Area (ELMA) in Vanuatu to help the Government of Vanuatu, SHEFA Province and local communities protect this area which provides key ecosystem services.
RESCCUE Final Workshop
Final RESCCUE workshop. Lesson learned about the project to be discussed.
The Blue Economy for the Blue Planet
NEW CALEDONIA, Nov 20 2018 (IPS) - We live on a “blue planet” where water covers around 75 percent of the Earth’s surface. Without water we would simply not survive as a species.
In New Caledonia, when the house is on fire, traditional leaders can help
Seven hundred years. That’s the time the Mont-Dore forest in New Caledonia will need to regenerate, after a bush fire destroyed most of it last year.
European Union renews commitment to Pacific climate and biodiversity in overseas territories
Tomas Mateo Goyet (Team Leader, overseas territories at the EU Delegation for the Pacific) and Cameron Diver (SPC Deputy Director-General) finalizing the SPC-SPREP codelagation agreement for the 11th EDF.
France, through the French Development Agency, and the Pacific Community, together commit for climate and the environmental protection in the Pacific
The Pacific Community and the French Development Agency (AFD) signed today at SPC Headquarters an agreement to renew for 2 years a position of Director, Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability Director within SPC.
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SPC as a key partner for biodiversity and climate change in the Pacific
AFD, the French agency for international development, together with Australia, the European Union and New Zealand launched the Pacific intitiative last month in New York as a side eent to the One Planet Summit. This 21m-euro fund is focused on…