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Plastics, Marine Litter, and Climate in the Pacific Region - Factsheet 3

Waste Management and Pollution Control

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Global plastics production is a significant contributor to climate change impacts in the Pacific Islands region. Ninety-nine percent of plastics come from fossil fuels, and plastics production is estimated to produce > 400 million tonnes of greenhouse gases (GHGs) per year. This figure does not include emissions from waste management (including transport), mismanagement, and degradation of plastic products. Plastics pollution, including marine litter, magnifies climate impacts in the Pacific region and threatens the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment.

Plastics Impacts on Human Health in the Pacific Region - Factsheet 4

Waste Management and Pollution Control

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Once produced, plastic never disappear. They are released into the environment, where they break up into tiny (micro-nano-sized) fragments. They leach toxic chemicals and gases at every stage of their life cycle and they attract and transfer additional toxic chemicals, pathogens, and invasive species. Toxic plastics-related chemicals and nano and microplastics contaminate soil, food, marine and freshwater sources, air and the bodies of animals and humans.

The Business of Plastics: The Impacts of Plastics Pollution on Human Rights in the Pacific Region - Factsheet 5

Waste Management and Pollution Control

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Despite the known environmental and human health harm of plastics, the Pacific Islands are under tremendous pressure to continue to import plastic products, to meet the high consumption expectations of tourists, and to manufacture plastics domestically. Current legal and policy frameworks in the region either exclude or include limited trade-related provisions, production, manufacturing, importation, packaging and end-of-life standards, and technical regulations for plastics, persistent organic pollutants and chemical activities.

Asbestos Management Policy and Regulation for Pacific Island Countries and Timor-Leste.

SPREP Publications, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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The advice on management of asbestos in the region is focused on the prevention of community exposure to asbestos fibers in order the eliminate asbestos-related disease. Inhalation of asbestos fibres can cause a range of fatal disease such as asbestosis (fibrosis of the lungs) and a range of cancers, including mesothelioma (WHO, 2018). When products containing asbestos are damaged or become degraded over time, asbestos fibres are exposed and can become airborne.

Asbestos Management Legislative and Regulatory Analysis - Policy Recommendations

SPREP Publications, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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The management and disposal of asbestos and asbestos containing materials (ACM) is an ongoing concern in the Pacific region. In seeking to improve the ways that asbestos and asbestos containing materials are managed; our project's focus is to prevent exposure to asbestos fibres in order the eliminate asbestos-related diseases. Asbestos is a known health hazard and may be present in buildings and pipes throughout the Pacific.

Samoa's Second Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) - Submission under the Paris Agreement July 2021

Environmental Governance, Climate Change Resilience

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Samoa is an island nation located in the Pacific Ocean, that is made up to nine volcanic islands - two pf which are Savai'i and Upolu. Upolu is the most populated where the capital city Apia is located and Savai'i is the largest of the nine. Samoa is extremely vulnerable to climate change due to its geographic location, status as a Small Island Developing State (SIDS) in the Pacific, and the importance of the natural resources to its main economic sectors of fisheries, agriculture and tourism. Samoa is only responsible for an insignificant proportion of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Despite this, Samoa is keen to play its part in global climate change mitigation efforts.

Solomon Islands 2021 - Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC)

Environmental Governance, Climate Change Resilience

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In its first NDC, Solomon Islands has committed to reduce emissions by 12% below 2015 level by 2025 and 30% below 2015 level by 2030 compared to a business-as-usual projection (BaU). However with international assistance Solomon Islands can further reduce its emissions by 27% by 2025; and 45% by 2030. This would make the overall reduction by Solomon Islands more than 50% by 2050.

Republic of Nauru - Updated Nationally Determined Contribution

Environmental Governance, Climate Change Resilience

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The Republic of Nauru welcomes this opportunity to submit its updated nationally determined contribution pursuant to Article 4.2 of the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This is updated nationally determined contribution (NDC) is intended to cover the time period of 1 January 2021 through 31 December 2030, and replaces the initial NDC submitted by Nauru to the UNFCCC on 17 November 2015.

Update communication on the Marshall Islands Paris Agreement Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC)

Environmental Governance, Climate Change Resilience

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Like so many communities and territories, even the planet itself, placed in peril by today's global climate emergency, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) future relies on the full and effective implementation of the Paris Agreement. The Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Agreement, spelling out how each nation contributes to it, have thereby become the most important public documents for the future of the world and the survival of our human civilization as we know it.

UNFCCC COP26 : Pacific NextGen projections digital digest

Climate Change Resilience

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Temperatures have increased, sea level has risen, cyclones have become less frequent but more intense, and ocean acidification has occurred1,2. This is affecting water resources, health, agriculture, fisheries, biodiversity, infrastructure, tourism and other sectors

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