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3rd Singapore-Pacific High-Level Visit, 20 to 22 May 2024

Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs · May 19, 2024

Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan will host the 3rd Singapore-Pacific High-Level Visit from 20 to 22 May 2024. The High-Level Visit is a platform for Singapore and Pacific Ministers to foster closer ties and exchange views in...

Memorandum between SPREP and Birdlife enhances collaboration to protect birds and biologically important sites

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · September 8, 2023

06 September 2023, Apia Samoa - The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and Birdlife International (BLI) continue to strengthen cooperation through a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), committing the organisations...

Knowledge Sharing – unveiling remarkable achievements, valuable lessons, and opportunities for the Inform Project

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · August 14, 2023

The Inform Project Regional Meeting provided a platform to highlight notable achievements and valuable lessons learned throughout its implementation period. Held on 20 – 21 June, in Nadi, Suva, the meeting presented an array of opportunities that...

ADB Appoints Emma Veve as Director General for Pacific

Asian Development Bank · February 3, 2025

MANILA, PHILIPPINES (3 February 2025) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has appointed Emma Veve as Director General of its Pacific Department (PARD), where she will be responsible for the department’s vision and strategy in the subregion....

SPREP enhances partnerships for a resilient Blue Pacific

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · September 5, 2023

04 September 2023, Apia Samoa - The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) continues to strengthen partnerships for a resilient Blue Pacific through the first SPREP Partnership Dialogue taking place in Samoa, at the...

Call for solidarity to strengthen Met services at Third Ministerial Meeting on Meteorology

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · August 18, 2023

18 August 2023, Nadi Fiji - Ministers attending the third Ministerial Meeting on Meteorology (PMMM-3) in Nadi, Fiji, have been urged to stand in solidarity to strengthen weather, climate, water, ocean and related development services in the...

The grim reality of Loss and Damage in Fiji

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · July 19, 2023

18 July 2023, Apia Samoa - The negative impacts of climate change-induced Loss and Damage is already a lived reality for many Pacific countries. In Fiji, the impact is grim. In Vunidogola village on the island of Vanua Levu, more than 160...

Greening the 2023 International Va’a Federation World Distance Championship

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · August 9, 2023

04 August 2023, Apia Samoa - A partnership between the Government of Samoa, the Samoa Outrigger Canoe Association (SOCA) and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) to make the International Va’a Federation World...

PACRES scales up adaptation in the Pacific using Ecosystem-based solutions

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · August 3, 2023

1 August 2023, Nadi, Fiji. We live in a time where the Blue Pacific grapples with ways to respond to the mounting threats created by the changing climate. There is an urgent need for innovative and cost-effective solutions. Our Pacific people have...

Curtain falls on the final PACRES Steering Committee and Lessons Learned Meeting

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · August 9, 2023

4 August 2023, Nadi, Fiji. Following a week of comprehensive and informative sessions and dialogue, partner countries and delivery partners brought the fourth and final Steering Committee meeting and Lessons Learned workshop for the European Union...

Pacific youth capacity strengthened at inaugural Loss and Damage dialogue

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · July 27, 2023

Youth representatives from across the Pacific have had the opportunity to learn firsthand about the issue of loss and damage from experts and experienced climate change negotiators during the inaugural Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS)...

PACRES Project Convenes Fourth Steering Committee Meeting in Fiji

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · July 31, 2023

31 July 2023, Nadi, Fiji. The Pacific Adaptation to Climate and Resilience Building (PACRES) project convened its fourth and final Project Steering Committee Meeting and Intra-ACP Lessons Learned in Climate Change and Disaster Resilience Workshop...

PACRES Countries reflect on their challenges and Lessons Learned

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · August 7, 2023

3 August 2023, Nadi, Fiji. Implementing countries for the European Union Intra-ACP GCCA+ Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change and Resilience Building (PACRES) project have spotlighted their challenges and recommendations for best practice at the...

Working together to build resilience across our Pacific

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · July 31, 2023

The Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change and Resilience Building (PACRES) project is scheduled to convene its fourth and final Project Steering Committee Meeting and the Intra-ACP Lessons Learned in Climate Change and Disaster Resilience Workshop...

Community engagement highlighted as rat removal operation on Late Island in Tonga moves forward

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · July 18, 2023

07 July 2023, Nukualofa Tonga - The Kingdom of Tonga is a step closer to implementing an operation to remove rats from the uninhabited Late Island following successful community and stakeholder consultations in Vavau last month. The first of the...

Leaders from the Pacific Region make a clear statement that the conservation of our oceans is not optional

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · January 25, 2023

17 December 2022, Montreal, Canada - Much of the talk these past two weeks at the CBD COP15 has centred around developing states concerned that there will be an unfair burden placed upon them to maintain their biodiversity. But the Pacific side...

Australia champions Pacific’s case, spotlights Indigenous people at plastics treaty negotiations

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · November 19, 2023

18 November 2023, Nairobi Kenya - Australia continues to champion the One Pacific Voice calling for an urgent and ambitious Global Plastic Treaty that addresses the full life cycle of plastics, as the third session of the Intergovernmental...

AOSIS offers waste management options for plastics treaty

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · June 11, 2023

04 June 2023, Paris France - The proposed legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, discussed at the second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-2) working to develop it, must...

Tonga launches National Invasive Species Strategy and Action Plan

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · July 7, 2023

The Kingdom of Tonga’s fight to manage invasive species has taken a massive leap forward with the Prime Minister, Honourable Hu’akavameilikiu Siaosi Sovaleni, launching their National Invasive Species Strategy and Action Plan (NISSAP) 2021 – 2027....

Celebrating 30 years of SPREP in the Cook Islands

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · May 31, 2023

Reflecting upon our past to help build our future was a key message amplified at a special event commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) in the Cook Islands. The celebration...