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Regional Early Action Rainfall Watch - Monthly and seasonal Rainfall Watch: May - July 2022

SPREP Publications, Climate Science and Information

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Lately the meteorological team have developed an online tool for surfing the weather patterns. This can help anyone with access to the internet what the weather will be like daily. Information provided has been given on a divisional scale as Pacific Island Countries can experience a high range of rainfall variability within country. It is possible to have forecasts which simultaneously favour above and below normal rainfall in different parts of the one country.

ACP MEAs Monthly Information Digest: Vol 2, Issue 4. April 2022

SPREP Publications, Environmental Governance

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The key highlights of this month issue include: - Outcome of the Geneva biodiversity conference - Blue Deal for economic recovery and sustainable growth - Roles of indigenous communities in biodiversity protection - Rise in online wildlife trade - Financing chemicals and waste management - Plastic taxes as new environmental policies - Regionalizing UNEA 5.2 plastic resolution in East Africa - Promoting the Science-Policy-Society Interface of synthetic biology - Launching ACP MEAs 3 Youth Engagement and Training Initiative in Europe

ACP MEAs 3 Quarterly Newsletter March. Volume 2, Issue 1

SPREP Publications, Environmental Governance

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The programme in the first quarter of 2022 include the key actions: - Promoting the science policy society interface of synthetic biology - Strengthening national capacity for effective implementation of chemicals and waste related MEAs in African countries. - Empowering youth in the eastern Africa region. - Galvanizing political will in the western Indian ocean region for the protection of coastal and marine resources. - Webinar on the feasibility and benefits of a transition to mercury-free lighting in CARICOM. - Supporting community based interventions on wastewater management in the Caribbean - Helping Antigua and Barbuda in phasing out mercury added products - Training Samoan government on sustainable development in the tourism sector - Launching ACP MEAs 3 youth engagement and training initiative in Europe.

Pacific Factsheet: Climate Change Mitigation and Development Pathways

Climate Change Resilience

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Key findings for the Pacific from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) on Mitigation of Climate Change

Pacific Factsheet: Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Climate Change Resilience

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Key findings for the Pacific from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) on Mitigation of Climate Change

Pacific Factsheet: Climate Change Mitigation on Finance and Technology

Climate Change Resilience

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Key findings for the Pacific from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) on Mitigation of Climate Change.

Technology Options Safe Destruction of Healthcare Waste other than Traditional, High-temperature Incineration

SPREP Publications, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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This study has relied primarily on desktop research to generate a decision-making tool to assist with the selection of Healthcare Waste (HCW) treatment technologies. The tool can be used to inform planning decisions within the Pacific context, although specific contextual considerations (such as geographical, financial and socio-political requirements) need to be applied by those using the tool. The diverse context of the Pacific region has been considered during the research.

Improving Biodiversity Protection through Artificial Intelligence

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Antonelli, Alexandre

Goria, Stefano

Silvestro, Daniele

Sterner, Thomas

Over a million species face extinction highlighting the urgent need for conservation policies that maximize the protection of biodiversity to sustain its manifold contributions to people's lives.

A Typology for Reef Passages

Biodiversity Conservation

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Biertwirth, Jan

Breckwoldt, Annette

Moosdorf, Nils

Nozik, Alexandra

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Coral reefs host exceptionally diverse and abundant marine life. Connecting coasts and sheltered lagoons to the open ocean reef passages are important yet poorly studies components of these ecosystems.

Conservation of Birds in Fragmented Landscapes Requires Protected Areas

Biodiversity Conservation

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Timmers, Robert

For successful conservation of biodiversity, it is vital to know whether protected areas in increasingly fragmented landscapes effectively safeguard species. However, how large habitat fragments must be, and what level of protection is required to sustain species, remains poorly known.

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