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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

An introduction to the MPA guide - Conserving biodiversity in the global ocean ; reflecting shared goals by refining shared language

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The MPA guide refines existing language and captures a shared vision to describe MPAs and the conservation outcomes they provide.

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.

Perspectives on the economics of the environment in the shadow of coronavirus

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Humankind has been very fortunate to have lived through a period of sustained economic growth pretty much since the agricultural revolution, with especially high rates of growth starting from the second half of the 20th century.

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

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