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4. Policy and legislation linked to COVID-19 and pandemics factsheet
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2020
Strong laws and institutions are essential for countries to respond to COVID-19 related waste management challenges in a manner that avoids negative, long-term health and environmental effects.
1. Introduction to COVID-19 waste management factsheet
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2020
Our response is to support Member States in addressing immediate challenges from the medical emergency, such as strengthening waste management systems. In response to COVID-19 hospitals, healthcare facilities and individuals are producing more waste than usual, including masks, gloves gowns and other protective equipment that could be infected with the virus.
PacWastePlus Connection newsletter - Issue 3 2020
Waste Management and Pollution Control
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2020
The impact of waste and pollution on sustainable development in the 15 Pacific countries is taking its toll on the health of Pacific communities, degrading natural ecosystems, threatening food security, impeding resilience to climate change and adversely impacting on social and economic development.
SPREP-Tok : Issue 67. August, 2020.
SPREP Publications
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2020
A monthly e-bulletin of activities and assistance from the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme to its member countries.
Pacific ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change (PEBACC) newsletter, Issue 10 (August 2020)
Biodiversity Conservation
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2020
The PEBACC has a set in motion a growing awareness amongst communities of the imperative to work with nature, based on sound science and scientific understanding both traditional and contemporary. Maintaining momentum of activities beyond the life of a funded project has many challenges.
Spawning potential surveys in Fiji: A new song of change for small-scale fisheries in the Pacific
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Prince, J. Lalavanua, W. Green, S. et al

2020
Catastrophic overfishing of small-scale coastal fisheries through the Pacific poses a major threat to regional food security and biodiversity. Globally approaches to fisheries assessment and management that were developed for industrial fisheries are falling small-scale data poor fisheries.
One earth - Change in terrestrial human footprint drives continued loss of intact ecosystems
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Williams, B A. Venter, O. Allan, J R. et al

2020
Human pressure mapping is important for understanding humanity's role in shaping Earth's patterns and processes.
Plastic pollution predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution
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Borrelle, S B. Ringma, J. Law, K L. et al

2020
Plastic pollution is a planetary threat, affecting nearly every marine freshwater ecosystem globally, In response, multilevel mitigation strategies are being adopted but with lack of quantitative assessment of how such strategies reduce plastic emissions.
2020 Pacific Resilience Partnership IKM technical working group - Online Zoom (Virtual meeting) : Summary
2020
A key message highlighted during the meeting include the urgent need for regional collaboration on managing, sharing utilising and delivering climate change and disaster risk data and information to inform reporting and decision-making.
Global biodiversity outlook 5 - Summary for Policymakers
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2020
Humanity stands at a crossroads with regard to the legacy it leaves to future generations. Biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, and the pressures driving this decline are intensifying. Development goals and undermining efforts to address climate change. The Covid-19 pandemic has further highlighted the importance of the relationship between people and nature, and it reminds us all of the profound consequences to our own well-being and survival that can result from continued biodiversity loss and the degradation of ecosystems.

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