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Plastic pollution prevention in Pacific Island countries: Gap analysis of current legislation, policies and plans

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Pacific Islands countries (PICs) contribute less than 13% of the mismanaged plastics in the world's oceans yet are one of the main recipients of plastics pollution and its impact.

Sinking Islands, drowned logic; Climate change and community-based adaptation discourses in Solomon Islands

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Eriksson, H

Govan, H

Minter, T

Sukulu, m

Van der Ploeg, J.

The saltwater people of Solomon Islands are often portrayed to be at the front line of climate change. In media, policy and development discourses the erosion and abandonment of the small , man made islands along the coast if Malaita is attributed to climate change induced sea-level rise. The paper investigates this sinking islands narratives and and argues that a narrow focus on the projected impacts of climate change distracts attention and resources from more pressing environmental and development problems that are threatening rural livelihoods.

Waste audit methodology - A common approach

SPREP Publications, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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This report presents a comprehensive data collection methodology that makes provision for the data collection requirements.

waste management

Webinar - laying in the Pacific building blocks for a global agreement to combat plastic pollution

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The weinar included high level of presentations and interventions from Fiji, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Tonga, Palau and the SPREP in addition to Massey University's Political Ecology Research Unit presenting a new research new research on the legislative framework for tackling plastic pollution in the region.

Effects of physical distancing to control covid-19 on public health, the economy and the environment

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Ashworth, M

Finnoff, D

Newbold, S C

Shogren, J F

Thunstorm, L

Physical distancing measures are important tools to to control disease spread, especially in the absence of treatments and vaccines. While distancing measures can safeguard public health, they also can profoundly impact the economy and may have important indirect effects on the environment.

Linking human destruction of nature to COVID-19 increases support for wildlife conservation policies

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Mourato, S

Shreedhar, G

This paper investigates if narratives varying the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic effects pro-wildlife conservation outcomes.

Climate Change Matters. Issue 65, April - August 2020

SPREP Publications, Climate Change Resilience

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Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)

An overlook to what has been happening since the last issue was sent out. With the Covid-19 pandemic happening around the world it caused us to postpone all our planned activites and now we have turn to online/virtual meetings.

Charting a "Green Path"for recovery from COVID-19

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Mukanjari, M

Sterner, T

Should the economic recovery from the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) be green ? The current crisis is so severe that we should not take the answer for granted. It requires serious thought and we start by reviewing some arguments for and against a green approach

Public awareness of nature and environment during the COVID-19 crisis

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Deschacht

Rousseau, S

As our behavioral patterns change due to the COVID-19 crisis, our impact on nature and the environment changes too. Pollution levels are showing significant reductions. People are more aware of the importance of access to local green and blue spaces.

CITES and the zoonotic disease content in international wildlife trade.

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Borsky, S

Hennighausen, H

Leiter, A

Williges, K

International trade in wildlife is one contributing factor to zoonotic disease risk. Using descriptive statistics, this paper shows that in the last decade, the volume and pattern of internationally traded wildlife has change considerably and with it, the zoonotic pathogens that are traded.

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