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Standards for Phasing Out Single use Plastics in the Pacific Island Countries' Tourism Industry

SPREP Publications, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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The Standards for Phasing-Out Single-use Plastics in Pacific Island Countries’ Tourism Industry sit within Pacific Sustainable Tourism Industry Standards. The Pacific Sustainable Tourism Industry Standard, along with the Pacific Sustainable Tourism Destination Standard, provides guidance to the SPTO and its members to work towards improved sustainability in tourism as required by the Pacific Sustainable Tourism Policy Framework (PSTPF).

Practical Guidelines for Environmental Audits of Tourist Accomodations in the Pacific

SPREP Publications, Environmental Governance, PNEA

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These guideline will serve as a vital resource for auditors and assessors alike, providing clear instructions and methodologies for conducting environmental audits, identifying areas for improvement, and implementing sustainable solutions through industry support.

COSPPac Monthly Bulletin, October 2024

SPREP Publications, Climate Science and Information

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The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) remains neutral, with sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the central equatorial Pacific Ocean at ENSO-neutral levels. Atmospheric indices, such as those related to patterns of surface pressure, cloud and trade winds, are broadly consistent with an ENSO-neutral state. While some atmospheric indices have displayed La Niña-like signals over re-cent months, a consistent/sustained shift has not been observed.

Vanuatu National Plan of Action for Seabirds, Sharks and Marine Turtles 2024-2028

SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation

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Seabirds, sharks and marine turtles are important apex species in the marine food-chain, and they maintain marine ecosystem health. These resources are caught as bycatch of commercial fisheries and some species are a source of food security and livelihoods with cultural values to some coastal communities in Vanuatu.

COP29: Pacific countries cannot be conveniently pigeon-holed

Climate Change Resilience

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An opinion text from the COP29 meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan

Handbook of Social Impact Assessment and Management

Environmental Governance

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This carefully conceived Handbook presents a state-of-the-art discussion of the field of social impact assessment (SIA), highlighting contemporary understandings and emerging issues in this continually evolving area of research and practice. Experienced SIA practitioners from around the world share their learnings and advice on a comprehensive range of issues faced in social performance practice.

Non-economic loss and damage in Pacific Small Island Developing States: ensuring climate justice through the loss and damage fund : briefing paper

SPREP Publications, Climate Change Resilience

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Burt, Lucy

Fuller, Sascha

Howle, Madeleine

Maguire, Amy

Nelson, Filomena

This briefing paper defines loss and damage based on recent literature and undertakes an analysis of the UNFCCC Financial Mechanism-funded projects for adaptation in the Pacific Islands region to identify the gaps in the UNFCCC Financial Mechanism in funding loss and damage.

Report of a knowledge cafe on seabirds in Samoa

SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation

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This activity was initiated after discussions between the SPREPs Knowledge Management team and the Threatened and Migratory Species Advisor about seabirds. The proposal was to hold an interactive session with community members about seabirds to elicit information about seabirds and provide a forum for discussion. This is to try and bridge the gap between traditional knowledge holders and scientists and to support SPREP’s Information & Knowledge Management Strategy goal on knowledge sharing with the community through collaboration with partners and stakeholders. This café style of knowledge sharing is the second workshop of this type where key stakeholders come together to discuss topics on the environment. The event provided an excellent platform for information dialogue between partners and the selected community representatives on the above topic. The community members that participated shared their knowledge and experiences on seabirds in Samoa.

Turtle research and monitoring database: a TREDS of summary Pacific turtle data recorded from 1970 to 2018

SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation

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The Turtle Research and monitoring Database System (TREDS) was developed in 1993, to allow members of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) to store, collate, and organise their data for research, monitoring and reporting. This tool is intended to assist members in making informed decisions regarding turtle conservation in the region. The dataset extracted from TREDS is from 1970 to 2018 and has been manipulated for the chapters covered in this report. The difference in dates for the establishment of TREDS in 1993 and the beginning of the date of the dataset of 1970 is simply due to users submitting their existing turtle data from 1970 once the database was launched in 1993, since many users saw the importance of TREDS as a lepository for storing their historical turtle data that was probably stored in paper format or on computers that would be susceptible to corruption or crashes. The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the data contained within TREDS since its development up until its upgrade to a web-based online database platform. The last TREDS Annual Report was published in 2009 with subsequent Country reports published until 2015.

ADB Policy Paper: Environment and Social Framework, October 2024

Environmental Governance

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Environment and social (E&S) sustainability through the protection of people and the environment from potential adverse impacts of Asian Development Bank (ADB) projects, is a cornerstone of ADB’s support for inclusive green economic growth and poverty reduction in Asia and the Pacific.

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