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'Oceanic diplomacy' as concept and practice : When practitioners and scholars think of Pacific diplomacy, they usually have in mind a form of diplomacy built on Western practices and protocols, and focused on the engagement between modern sovereign Pacific Islands states and their accredited ambassadors.

About 75% of GDP in Asia and the Pacific depends on nature, but it remains overlooked in economic planning. Healthy ecosystems support public health, livelihoods, fiscal stability, and climate resilience. Scaling nature finance requires upgraded governance, policies, and data.

Join Mana and his family on their island home, as they are inspired to become youth leaders for biodiversity. In this story, they meet their local community members who are working to protect the forests, reefs and waters that are so vital for life in the Pacific.

The report encapsulates scientific research, social science analysis and Indigenous knowledge in a holistic way, while amplifying the voices of grassroots communities whose wisdom and experiences are often overlooked in climate policy discourses.

Join Mareva and her community as they learn about marine spatial planning in the Pacific. In this comic book, they witness a ship running aground and damaging their local reef. Then they become motivated to speak up about protecting their island and the ocean around it!

Strategic foresight and futures thinking provide creative yet structured ways to think about and plan for the future. They include identifying what is driving change and the implications that those drivers have on the decisions we make today. The Pacific Pathfinder is a guide and toolkit for Pacific policy analysts and planners involved in strategic planning. It contains tools to help gather intelligence about the future, explore dynamics of change, describe our future, create alternative scenarios, and develop and test strategy. The Pacific Pathfinder builds on our Pacific strengths, traditions and knowledge of how to navigate strategically toward a desired future.

Climate change is one of the most pervasive threats humanity faces. Although climate science has long warned against climate change impacts and some efforts have been made to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

Organic material is biodegradable matter such as kitchen scraps (food): garden cuttings, grass and branches and paper. Combined data from 13 waste audits in the Pacific found that approximately 40% of waste disposal to our landfills and dumps is organics.

There is enormous variety across cities in Asia and the Pacific, reflected in the unique challenges and opportunities associated with climate change that each of them face. Despite these differences, it is possible to see a common desire to contribute toward climate action. This publication clearly demonstrates that no matter the circumstances, cities are in a unique position to take action at the local level to address this global phenomenon.

The ocean drives the processes that make our planet capable of supporting life, and contains some of the world’s most complex and diverse ecosystems.1 But these ecosystems are increasingly under threat. Pollution, overfishing, offshore drilling and other human activities are destroying ocean habitat and threatening marine species, with profound consequences for the biodiversity on which the health of our ocean depends.2 A growing number of scientists and conservationists are coalescing around the goal of protecting at least 30 percent of the world’s ocean by 2030 through networks of marine protected areas (MPAs) – protected zones of ocean where extractive and destructive human activity is limited.