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The impact of waste and pollution on sustainable development in the 15 Pacific countries is taking its toll on the health of Pacific communities, degrading natural ecosystems, threatening food security, impeding resilience to climate change and adversely impacting on social and economic development.

A monthly e-bulletin of activities and assistance from the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme to its member countries.

The PEBACC has a set in motion a growing awareness amongst communities of the imperative to work with nature, based on sound science and scientific understanding both traditional and contemporary. Maintaining momentum of activities beyond the life of a funded project has many challenges.

Catastrophic overfishing of small-scale coastal fisheries through the Pacific poses a major threat to regional food security and biodiversity. Globally approaches to fisheries assessment and management that were developed for industrial fisheries are falling small-scale data poor fisheries.

Human pressure mapping is important for understanding humanity's role in shaping Earth's patterns and processes.

Plastic pollution is a planetary threat, affecting nearly every marine freshwater ecosystem globally, In response, multilevel mitigation strategies are being adopted but with lack of quantitative assessment of how such strategies reduce plastic emissions.

A key message highlighted during the meeting include the urgent need for regional collaboration on managing, sharing utilising and delivering climate change and disaster risk data and information to inform reporting and decision-making.

Humanity stands at a crossroads with regard to the legacy it leaves to future generations. Biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, and the pressures driving this decline are intensifying. Development goals and undermining efforts to address climate change. The Covid-19 pandemic has further highlighted the importance of the relationship between people and nature, and it reminds us all of the profound consequences to our own well-being and survival that can result from continued biodiversity loss and the degradation of ecosystems.

The Global Climate Change Alliance Plus (GCCA+) Scaling up Pacific Adaptation (SUPA) places people in the nine smaller Pacific Island countries and Fiji at the centre of climate change adaptation efforts as the project seeks to strengthen the sectors responsible for providing water, food, health, marine resources and coastal protection.

GCCA+SUPA Budget factsheet