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The capital cites of the South Pacific are experiencing rapid urbanisation pressures as increasing numbers of people migrate to the primary cites either in search of employment and greater access to healthcare and education, or as a consequence of environmental push factors.

Ocean cities are where urban lanscapes and seascapes meet, where built and natural environments near coastlines interface and where human behaviour and urban development have profound impacts on both terrestrial and marine ecosystems.

Effective waste management is a key challenge facing Small Island Developing States. The remoteness of many of these islands and their vulnerability to climate change make the handling and transport of waste both expensive and difficult. The challenge is particularly acute for hazardous waste.

Waste disposal landfill, illegal dumping and backyard burning are favored in most cases, at the expense of more sustainable waste treatment technologies such as composting, anaerobic digesting and recycling.

Recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) document the impacts of ocean acidification, deoxygenation, marine heat waves, ocean heat content, ice sheet and glacier mass lost driving rapid increases to sea level rise, changes in ocean currents, and the decline of Arctic sea ice.

Our vision - is to protect, sustain develop, organize and utilize our forest's biodiversity and natural resources for the maximum benefit for our people and generations to come. At the same time achieving sustainable development goals empowering our people to be self-sufficient and productive in a cash base economic era.

This country diagnostics assessment reviews the current disaster risk financing (DRF) landscape and enabling environment in Fij, with a particular focus on risk transfer instruments- insurance, reinsurance and capital markets. The assessment is based on a modified version of the W&W Development Framework for accommodating international best practice, as well as public and private sector stakeholders' inputs.

The 15 Pacific developing member countries (DMCs) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are exposed to a wide range of worsening climate-related hazards, such as tropical cyclones, floods, droughts storm surges and sea level rise. The region also faces geo physical hazards such as volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.

This inaugural Asia and the Pacific Renewable Energy status report provides a comprehensive overview of renewable energy developments in selected countries of the region.Asia and the Pacific plays a large role in the world, covering a vast territory and contributing a majority of world population and population growth. The region's economic transformation, accompanied by an energy transition is fundamental to the success of global efforts to achieve sustainable development goals and decarbonisation objectives.

Le patrimoine naturel marin des collectivités françaises d’outre- mer est exceptionnel, bien qu’encore très méconnu. Avec une ZEE totale de plus de 10 millions de km2, les outre-mer contribuent à plus de 97 % à l’espace maritime national, le deuxième plus vaste au monde. Les îles et archipels français tropicaux accueillent 10 % des récifs coralliens et lagons et 20 % des atolls de la pla- nète