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Sustainable Financing for Waste Management (28 June 2022, 1pm-2pm Samoa time)

SPREP Publications, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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This interactive webinar presented opportunities for Pacific Island Countries (PICs) to undertake peer-to-peer learning on the implementation or expansion of a Sustainable Financing for Waste Management scheme, and the launch of the Sustainable Financing for Waste Management in the Pacific community of practice on the Green Forum.

SPREP-Tok : Issue 86. July, 2022.

SPREP Publications

Available Online

A monthly e-bulletin of activities and assistance from the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme to its member countries

SPREP-Tok: Special Issue, UN Oceans Conference 2022

SPREP Publications, Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation

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Our member countries reaffirmed the declaration entitled “Our ocean, our future: call for action”, adopted by the high-level United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14. They also joined the global call for stronger commitment to conserve and sustainably use the ocean, seas and marine resources as well as greater ambition at all levels to improve the health, productivity, sustainable use and resilience of the ocean and its ecosystems.

Recommended Procedures: Disposal and Landfilling of Asbestos Containing Wastes

SPREP Publications, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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The management and disposal of asbestos and asbestos containing materials (ACM) is an ongoing concern in the Pacific region. In seeking to improve the ways that asbestos and asbestos containing materials are managed, our project's focus is to prevent exposure to asbestos fibres in order to eliminate asbestos related diseases.

Microbial Contamination Survey of Environmental Fresh and Saltwater Resources of Upolu Island, Samoa

Biodiversity Conservation

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Ochsenkühn, Michael A.

et al

Analysis of microbe diversity in freshwater resources and nearshore seawater samples of Upolu island was performed to investigate the distribution of harmful bacteria.

Biosecurity of Upolu Fresh and Salt Environmental Water Resources

Biodiversity Conservation

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In 2019, the United Nations in Samoa secured a USD 1.0 million financing from the UN-India Development Partnership Fund managed by the UN Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) to fund the joint programme titled Samoa-Knowledge Society Initiative (S-KSI) whose main objective is to facilitate access to knowledge as a public good and advance research-based sustainable development.

Blue Tech for Waste - Guidelines

Waste Management and Pollution Control

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Caribbean countries and in particular Small Island Developing States (SIDS), experience unique challenges with managing chemicals and waste due to their small physical size, high population density, limited resources, unique biodiversity, high risk of exposure to natural hazards and disasters, vulnerability to the effects of climate change, remoteness from global markets and small economies of scale.

Gains in Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem services form the expansion of the Planet's Protected areas

Biodiversity Conservation

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Koh, Lian Pin

Wilcove, David S.

Zeng, Yiwen

Protected areas safeguard biodiversity, ensure ecosystem functioning and deliver ecosystem services to communities.

Beyond the boundaries: How Regulation-centered Marine Protected Area Information improves Ocean Protection Assessments

Biodiversity Conservation

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Driedger, Alex

Gleason, Mary G.

Sletten, Jennifer

et al

Comprehensive, spatially explicit data that include regulatory information are essential for evaluating the level of protection that marine protected areas (MPAs) and other marine managed areas (MMAs) provide to marine life, and to inform progress towards ocean protection targets

Mismatches in Scale between highly Mobile Marine Megafauna and Marine Protected Areas

Biodiversity Conservation

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Conners, Melinda G.

Pierre, Agamboue D.

Sisson, Nicholas B

et al

Marine Protected areas (MPAs), particularly large MPAs, are increasing in number and size around the globe in part to facilitate the conservation of marine megafauna.

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