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This session provides participants with an overview of the EIA process including reference to SPREP SPTO Regional EIA Guidelines which includes templates for how to assess an EIA and mitigation risk for a development project.

This session sets the tone for the training by providing examples of sustainable tourism efforts from across the region, as well as poorly implemented tourism developments across the region.

This session introduces the concepts of waste management and importance of earlier identification of and planning for management of waste streams. It also covers elements of Samoa’s plastics bans and waste management commitments including the use of waste audits and Samoa’s waste accounting. Participants also shared their views and challenged the status quo to suggest novel means of dealing with the waste problem in the Pacific.

Session discusses the use of renewables in the Pacific context, drawing upon examples from across the region.

Socialising of available toolkits to support tourism recovery. SPTO presents on the codes of practice and discuss other relevant codes of practice for tourism operations. The Toolkit comprises of 7 chapters that are designed to support Tourism SMEs in the Pacific respond, adapt, and diversify their products and services through an improved understanding of the changing tourism market and traveler demands.

Brief overview of the PLP-ESS partnership which brings key partners including the World Bank, The Asian Development Bank, The University of the South Pacific and SPREP to deliver capacity building on environmental and social safeguard issues in the Pacific.

Session covers developing your concept into a plan and the importance of monitoring your project and how to gauge sustainable success. It also touches on the importance of an EMP and how this is an essential component of an EIA approval and project management tool and monitoring for approval conditions.

Presentation highlights the support by the ACPMEA III program and its support for parties to the Noumea convention on pollution control and EIA implementation.

Climate change and natural disasters can have lasting consequences on livelihood, economies and fiscal balances - spanning immediate reconstruction costs and fiscal shocks to long-term halts in tourism and agriculture economies. Although continues in the Pacific are the most exposed globally to these impacts, they have severely limited resources with which to prepare for and respond to them. This publication anazlyses the vulnerability of Pacific economies to climate change and disaster events, and identifies existing resources for responding to economic shocks. It also considers measures that public and private sector stakeholders can take develop new tools to increase economic and fiscal resilience across the Pacific region.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is pleased to present you the Third Issue of the ACP MEAs 3 monthly digest for March 2022. The Digest provides a collection key information from various sources, including programme partners on issues related to Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs). This months issue key highlights include: State of global environmental governance; Health in the global environmental agenda; State of finance for nature; Failure in global climate-adaptation funds; Protecting vital ecosystems; Nations agreed to end global scourge of plastic pollution; Mainstreaming ocean acidification into national policies; Plastic credits help solve the waste crisis; Enforcing the polluter-pays principle, and Gender equality and sustainable green future.