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The sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) assesses the state of the environment, the effectiveness of policy and other responses in addressing environmental challenges, and the possible pathways for achieving carious internationally agreed environmental goals.

The shared approach recognizes and addresses significant challenges that are endemic to the Pacific. These include: remoteness and isolation, small populations prevalence and diversity of traditional social practices and economies, limited administrative and technical capacity, frequency and severity of natural disasters and vulnerability to climate change.

A stronger economic recovery is underway on the back of vaccination progress, better-calibrated public health measures and extraordinary fiscal and monetary policy support.

This publication summarizes the current status of urban sanitation in Papua New Guinea (PNG), highlighting the condition in informal settlements in Port Moresby and peri-urban communities in selected provincial towns. It discusses opportunities to make sanitation more inclusive through the introduction of an operational fecal sludge management (FSM) framework and offers lessons and practical recommendations for PNG government’s action and sector stakeholders’ support.

This book is an attempt to address two main difficulties we have encountered in our teaching and practice of international environmental law. One is of a substantive nature and stems from the daunting reach and diversity of the subject matter. No other area of international law gives the newcomer such an impression of dispersion, lack of articulation, even exoticism. The topics gathered under the label international environmental law range from the protection of wetlands or whales or genetic resources to nuclear energy, ozone depletion or hazardous waste control.

Th e Vanuatu Economic Report 2009 outlines the state of economy and social development in the country and presents a road map for addressing key development challenges. It identifies the principal binding development constraints and opportunities in public sector performance, private sector and social development, and governance.