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The Bureau of Cultural and Historic Preservation Disaster Risk and Climate Change Survey has assessed fifteen site as part of Phase I of the Project. Sites at the following ten locations are discussed in this comic to illustrate the range of threats facing cultural heritage sites in the Republic of Palau and the project's recommendations for risk reduction based site management.

As the world marches toward the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP21) in December 2015, governments are determining what effort they will make to reduce emissions and address climate change. Countries are already in the midst of implementing commitments through 2020. Now they are turning their attention to preparing their commitments for the post-2020 period through pledges known as intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs)

Future climate poses a set of fundamental challenges to livelihoods in the Pacific Island region. People have to developed an understanding of their natural environments, their production potential and their vulnerabilities and the variations in these through time as forced by climate change.

Communities and islands... two of the most important building blocks in the future we want - in a future that is inclusive, sustainable and resilient. Their health and well-being will be the litmus test for success. The past 12 years of the Equator Initiative have surfaced local leaders in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) that are without doubt the global champions we need for sustainable development - for our global community as well as for the future of islands. The priorities of SIDS and their policy agenda have changed little over the past 20 years. When the sustainable development for SIDS was quietly introduced to Chapter 17 of Agenda 21 - in 1992 - there was some surprise, but little resistance. This was at a time when many SIDS were without environment units let alone Ministers responsible for the portfolio, and climate change was just emerging as a significant global threat. While some of the institutional capacity in SIDS was still being built, island communities were able to tell stories, provide the anecdotal evidence of changing environments - of climate change itself - that over the subsequent years have been confirmed by science. The strong sense of self-reliance was as evident then as it is today.

Report on the invasive species in the Caribbean, by IUCN, documenting the environmental crises and how to manage impacts on the natural island biodiversity and carrying out successful eradication.

The purpose of this book is to make suggestions to Parties on the possible contents of their legislation to implement CITES. In addition, this book does not aim to be a comprehensive review of all laws enacted to implement CITES. References made to provisions contained in national legislation are examples to assist in legislative drafting and do not imply that similar or related provisions do not appear in the laws of other parties.