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Training in Best Practice Chemical Management for the Pacific Region - Training Report for the Republic of Palau

Available Online

Global Environment Facility (GEF)

Training in best practice chemical management was identified as a key need for Pacific Island countries in their planning for implementation of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. In addition, it was recommended that the training should be applicable to all types of chemicals, rather than just those covered under the Convention. The training component of the Pacific Persistent Organic Pollutants Release Reduction Project was developed in response to these needs. This involved the delivery of training courses within 14 Pacific Island countries with the overall aim of improving regional chemical management. The courses were developed and delivered by the Institute of Applied Science of the University of the South Pacific under a contract to the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme. Funding for the work was provided by the Global Environment Facility and implemented by the United Nations Environment Programme. The objectives, comments, and actions from the existing Sound Chemicals Management Policy (2011) remain relevant to Palaus management of hazardous chemicals. Some are discussed again in the Action Plan from the Training Workshop but the full policy is included here for completeness. This appears in Appendix 4. Similarly, the 2007 Stockholm Convention National Implementation Plan for the management of pesticides, PCBs, and unintentional POPs contains some action points that remain relevant (Appendix 5). Additional ones for the new POPs will be relevant when the Stockholm Convention NIP is updated. As Palau continues with their refinement of the Draft Action Plan for Hazardous Chemicals developed during the Training, they will harmonize these two attachments.

The Knowledge Manager's Handbook : a step-by-step guide to embedding effective knowledge management in your organization

Lambe, Patrick

Milton, Nick

The Knowledge Manager's Handbook takes you step by step through the processes needed to define and embed an effective knowledge management framework within your organisation. Knowledge management experts Nick Milton and Patrick Lambe guide you through each stage of creating and implementing a knowledge management framework to deliver business value and organisational knowledge. This book tackles the essential aspects of knowledge management - including roles and accountabilities, processes, technology and governance - and shows how each of these can be tailored to your organisation's specific needs and optimized to deliver long-term benefits.

The Birds of Samoa

Baumann, Sabine

Beichle, Ulf

This book is meant primarily to serve as a tool for the science and conservation of Samoan birds. Teachers, students, government workers, tourists, and visitors interested in Samoan wildlife should be able to benefit from what is being provided here. More than 325 colour photographs have been included, from bird studies during 1975 and 2015, mostly by the authors. All endemic bird species are illustrated and discussed, many of them for the first time. Land birds of this remote chain of islands, including the rare Tooth-billed Pigeo and the Mao-Honeyeater, are listed and described. Numerous spectrograms convey an idea of how the songs of Samoan land birds can be identified.

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Regulation of Director General of Marine Spatial Management No. 03/PER-DJPRL/2016 on the guidance of the use of marine protected area sustainable fishery zone for local and traditional community fishing activities

Directorate General of Marine Spatial Management

Directorate of Marine Conservation and Biodiversity

Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries

Regulation of Director General of Marine Spatial Management No. 03/PER-DJPRL/2016 on the guidance of the use of marine protected area sustainable fishery zone for local and traditional community fishing activities

A Sustainable Future for Small States: Pacific 2050

Commonwealth Secretariat

A Sustainable Future for Small States: Pacific 2050 is part of the Commonwealth Secretariats regional strategic foresight programmes that examines whether current development strategies set a region on a path to achieve sustainable development by 2050. The publication follows a previous study on the Caribbean entitled Achieving a Resilient Future for Small States: Caribbean 2050, which was launched at the Commonwealth Global Biennial Conference on Small States in May 2016.

Results of the 25th annual "Questionnaire on environmental problems and the survival of humankind" : Report

Asahi Glass Foundation

Emission reductions by developed countries are indispensable to protect the global environment. However, alongside those efforts, emission reductions by developing countries (especially high CO2 emitting developing countries like China and India) have surfaced as an important area to address. In order to attain this outcome, the simultaneous achievement of emissions reductions and economic growth for developing countries (especially high CO2 emitting developing countries like China and India) has become an unavoidable obstacle.

Global Climate Commitments In Action (CTCN) : 2016 Progress Report

Climate Change Resilience

Available Online

Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN)

The landmark agreement reached in Paris in December, 2015 committed countries to ambitious actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen their resilience to the impacts associated with global climate change. The Climate Technology Centre and Network, the operative arm of the UNFCCC's Technology Mechanism, featured prominently in that text - and we have spent the months since COP21 working to realise the vision with which the Parties have entrusted us.

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Counting the potential cost of deep sea-bed mining to Fiji

Biodiversity Conservation

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Binney, Jim

Fleming, Dr Chris

Fiji has been identified as one of the countries most vulnerable to declines in reef condition due to the high dependence on reef systems for key industries (tourism and fishing). Much of the waters of Fiji and adjacent international waters include highly prospective deposits of copper, gold, zinc, silver and chemical elements. Extracting these resources is only now becoming feasible due to technological advances in Deep Seabed Mining (DSM). A large area of Fijis waters is now subject to DSM exploration licenses. But very little is known of the risks DSM creates for key marine ecosystem services and the industries that reply on those services for both income and employment (e.g. tourism and fishing). This desktop study seeks to identify, scope and broadly estimate the potential costs to Fiji associated with DSM. Only once those costs are understood, can Fiji confidently make robust policy decision about the amount, location and management of DSM within its waters.

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Global Atlas of Marine Fisheries: A critical appraisal of catches and ecosystem impacts

Biodiversity Conservation

Pauly, Daniel (ed.)

Zeller, Dirk (ed.)

Until now, there has been only one source of data on global fishery catches: information reported to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations by member countries. An extensive, ten-year study conducted by The Sea Around Us Project of the University of British Columbia shows that this catch data is fundamentally misleading. Many countries underreport the amount of fish caught (some by as much as 500%), while others such as China significantly overreport their catches. The Global Atlas of Marine Fisheries is the first and only book to provide accurate, country-by-country fishery data. This groundbreaking information has been gathered from independent sources by the worlds foremost fisheries experts, and edited by Daniel Pauly and Dirk Zeller of the Sea Around Us Project. The Atlas includes one-page reports on 273 countries and their territories, plus fourteen topical global chapters. National reports describe the state of the country's fishery, by sector; the policies, politics, and social factors affecting it; and potential solutions. The global chapters address cross-cutting issues, from the economics of fisheries to the impacts of mariculture. Extensive maps and graphics offer attractive and accessible visual representations. While it has long been clear that the worlds oceans are in trouble, the lack of reliable data on fishery catches has obscured the scale, and nuances, of the crisis. The atlas shows that, globally, catches have declined rapidly since the 1980s, signaling an even more critical situation than previously understood. The Global Atlas of Marine Fisheries provides a comprehensive picture of our current predicament and steps that can be taken to ease it. For researchers, students, fishery managers, professionals in the fishing industry, and all others concerned with the status of the worlds fisheries, the Atlas will be an indispensable resource.

Interactions between sea-level rise and wave exposure on reef island dynamics in the Solomon Islands

Biodiversity Conservation

Available Online

Albert, Simon

Church, John A.

Gibbes, Badin R.

Grinham, Alistair R.

Leon, Javier X.

Woodroffe, Colin D.

Low-lying reef islands in the Solomon Islands provide a valuable window into the future impacts of global sea-level rise. Sea-level rise has been predicted to cause widespread erosion and inundation of low-lying atolls in the central Pacific. However, the limited research on reef islands in the western Pacific indicates the majority of shoreline changes and inundation to date result from extreme events, seawalls and inappropriate development rather than sea-level rise alone. Here, we present the first analysis of coastal dynamics from a sea-level rise hotspot in the Solomon Islands. Using time series aerial and satellite imagery from 1947 to 2014 of 33 islands, along with historical insight from local knowledge, we have identified five vegetated reef islands that have vanished over this time period and a further six islands experiencing severe shoreline recession. Shoreline recession at two sites has destroyed villages that have existed since at least 1935, leading to community relocations. Rates of shoreline recession are substantially higher in areas exposed to high wave energy, indicating a synergistic interaction between sea-level rise and waves. Understanding these local factors that increase the susceptibility of islands to coastal erosion is critical to guide adaptation responses for these remote Pacific communities.

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