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To avoid or minimize impacts by exploring alternatives, to mitigate adverse impacts through timely compensation and assistance to restore livelihoods and living standards.

In the Cook Islands, the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) project focuses on coastal zone management on Mangaia Island. The project is helping to ‘climate-proof’ coastal development, and to develop an integrated coastal management policy and plan for Mangaia

The people of the Pacific rely heavily on the resources of the land and the sea for their social, cultural and economic well being. For thousands of years, they have lived in harmony with nature. Geographic and ecological isolation of the Pacific Islands have led to the evolution of unique species and communities of plants and animals, many of which are endemic to specific islands. The South Pacific Biodiversity Conservation Programme (SPBCP) offers an opportunity for an effective long term conservation of unique species, special, and diverse ecosystems, by establishing conservation areas on different islands. This video highlights the beauty of the natural heritage of the Pacific Islands people, which is now under conservation. Islands visited in this video are; Samoa, Fiji, Cook Islands, Kosrae, Pohnpei and Palau.

National Hepor!.s to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) were prepared under the direction of the National Task Forces in 12 Pacific island countries with the financial and technical assistance of the Asian Development Bank and United Nations Development Programme. This assistance was coordinated by Gerald Miles through the South Pacific Regional Environment Programmll (SPREP). For the Cook Islands, this report was drafted by Teariki Rongo and Bob Thistlethwaite, ane! endorsed by their government for presentation to the United Nations.