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SRWMA/JPRISM II Waste Oil Collection & Storage Pilot Project Implementation Report Phase I

Waste Management and Pollution Control

Available Online

This report shows the collection amount of waste oil collected by the Samoa Recycling & Waste Management Association in collaboration with JPRISM II from August to September 2021. It identified issues at the collection stage, weighing stage, the SWOMP facility layout, and what needs to be improved before Phase 2 begins. It also touches upon the cost analysis and revision of collection fees to help SRWMA with their finances.

COSPPac Monthly Climate Bulletin, August 2022.

SPREP Publications, Climate Science and Information

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The Bureau's ENSO Outlook continues at La Niña indicating at least a 70% chance of La Niña reforming later this year. This is around triple the normal likelihood. La Niña events increase the chances of above-average rainfall for northern and eastern Australia and western Pacific during spring and summer.

Hybrid and Battery Energy Storage Systems

Climate Change Resilience

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Many Pacific SIDs see a conversion of imported fossil fuel based electricity generation to locally available renewable energy generation as an opportunity to reduce vulnerability, in case sustainability and energy security, and improve electricity access and affordability.

Climate, Land, Energy and Water systems Interactions – From key concepts to model implementation with OSeMOSYS

Environmental Governance, Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation

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Alfstad, Thomas

Niet, Taco

Ramos, Eunice Pereira

et al

The climate, land, energy and water systems (CLEWs) approach guides the development of integrated assessments. The approach includes an analytical component that can be performed using a simple accounting methods, soft-linking tools, incorporating cross-systems considerations in sectoral models, or using one modelling tool to represent CLEW systems.

Industrialised Fishing Nations largely Contribute to Floating Plastic Pollution in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

Biodiversity Conservation, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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Lebreton, Laurent

Peytavin, Axel

Royer, Sarah-Jeanne

et al

The subtropical oceanic gyre in the North Pacific Ocean is currently covered with tens of thousands of tonnes of floating plastic debris, dispersed over millions of square kilometres. A large fraction is composed of fishing nets and ropes while the rest is mostly composed of hard plastic-objects and fragments, sometimes carrying evidence on their origin.

Committing to Sustainable Waste Actions in the Pacific (SWAP) - Marine Litter Workshop Activity Report April 2022

SPREP Publications, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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Marine pollution is the result of harmful chemicals entering the ocean, polluted waste waters industrial agricultural and residential waste, garbage from ships, and the spread of invasice organisms.

Mainstreaming Water Resilience in Asia and the Pacific: Guidance Note

Climate Change Resilience

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Water resilience is an unsurpassed challenge and opportunity in establishing a properous, inclusive and sustainable Asia and the Pacific. It determined each country's ability to prepare, withstand and thrive in the wake of grave water stresses brought on by disasters triggered by natural hazards and climate change.

Sea-Level Change in the Pacific Islands Region

Climate Change Resilience

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The engagement in the Pacific Islands Region (PIR) of the Pacific Department PARD) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) includes supporting developing countries in the PIR through regional development forums and infrastructure finance. Given the vulnerability of the PIR to SLR (sea level rise), how precautionary should investors be when dealing with SLR in the Pacific.

Economic Insights from Input–Output Tables for Asia and the Pacific

Environmental Governance

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Underpinning all statistics and analyses is the Asia Development Bank's Miltiregional Input-Output database which contains national and bilateral flows for 62 national economies.

Aid for Trade in Asia and the Pacific

Environmental Governance

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The report demonstrated the need for updated approached to aid for trade in the region to support effective participation in such agreement, undertake reforms and promote access to digitalisation in ways that promote inclusive development and deliver the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable development.

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