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The Sixth South Pacific Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas held in Palikir, Federated States of Micronesia, on 29 September – 3 October 1997, continued the series of nature conservation conferences held in New Zealand (1975), Australia (1979), Western Samoa (1985), Vanuatu (1989) and Tonga (1993).

The Afulilo Hydro Power Augmentation Project was designed specifically to assist with the Upolu power system stability. Demand for energy has been growing in line with growth in maximum demand and, while the Afulilo scheme is producing more energy than anticipated, the sustainable energy outflow of the present scheme is limited by water inflows, reservoir storage volume and installed generation capacity. Because the Afulilo scheme is the only hydro scheme in Samoa with carry over storage, augmentation of the Afulilo scheme is paticularly important to increase dry season capacity to reduce the amount of installed diesel capacity to reduce overall fuel consumption and to lessen the dry season peak in fuel consumption.

This report summarises the outcome of the Third Conference of the Parties (COP3) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) held in Kyoto, Japan from 1-11 December 1997

The environment is a population's surroundings, both local and global, and social and physical.

This article provides details pf this new programme together with its current status of activities and the people involved in its implementation.

Ministers of the ninth SPREP meeting approved and supported a new four year action plan which will guide the SPREP to the year of 2000 .