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Fourth Clean Pacific Roundtable advances journey towards Cleaner Pacific

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · August 28, 2024

9 August 2024, Funafuti Tuvalu – The Fourth Clean Pacific Roundtable (4CPRT) guided by the theme “Clean Environment. Resilient Oceans. Healthy Communities” has closed with a renewed focus to strengthen regional cooperation, collaboration,...

Plastic treaty should reflect comprehensive approach across full lifecycle of plastics – Kingdom of Tonga

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · April 25, 2024

25 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - An international legally binding instrument to address plastic pollution should reflect a comprehensive approach across the full lifecycle of plastics, respect national circumstances, and be accompanied by accessible...

Pacific-EU Waste Management Programme’s contribution to Cleaner Pacific highlighted in Tuvalu

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · August 3, 2024

2 August 2024, Funafuti Tuvalu - A project designed to ensure the safe and sustainable management of waste with due regard for the conservation of biodiversity, health and wellbeing of Pacific island communities is making a tangible difference in...

Pacific Islands gather in Funafuti for first-ever Plastic Dialogue

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · August 8, 2024

7 August 2024, Funafuti Tuvalu - With the community of nations deadlocked in international negotiations to conclude a global instrument to end plastic pollution by the end of 2024, a first-of-its-kind Plastic Dialogue was convened today in...

RMI Endorses NISSAP to Enhance Effective Management of Invasive Species

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · October 11, 2024

9 October 2024 Majuro, Republic of Marshall Islands - Invasive species continue to be a costly issue for all countries and particularly for island nations, and with increasing trade and movement of people between countries, the threat of new...

Voices of Pacific Women: Tekura Moeka’a

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · April 24, 2024

Negotiating a Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution including in the Marine Environment 23 April 2024, Ottawa, Canada - For this young Cook Islands woman, she found it was a matter of “fight or flight” when it came to her very first UN...

Climate, Environment, and Conservation: Women Leaders from Pacific Participate in U.S. Program on Climate Change

U.S. Department of State · August 16, 2013

From August 18 – 28, 2013, twelve women climate leaders from across the Pacific region will visit Washington, D.C., Pensacola, Florida, and Honolulu, Hawaii to meet with policymakers, scientists, and innovators to share their experiences and to...

Pacific Invasive Species Battlers Embrace GEDSI and Traditional Knowledge

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · August 25, 2024

14 August 2024, Rarotonga, Cook Islands - Regional participants attending the sixth Pacific Invasive Learning Network (PILN) meeting reaffirmed the importance of applying Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) and traditional...

Tuvalu hosts Fourth Clean Pacific Roundtable

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · August 5, 2024

3 August 2024, Funafuti Tuvalu - The Government and the people of Tuvalu have embraced the opportunity to host the Fourth Clean Pacific Roundtable (4CPRT) at the Rt. Hon. Dr Sir Tomasi Puapua Convention Centre (TPCC), Funafuti, from 5 – 9 August...

Pacific Islands region waste management challenges under the microscope at Fourth Clean Pacific Roundtable

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · August 6, 2024

5 August 2024, Funafuti Tuvalu - Officials and delegates at the Fourth Clean Pacific Roundtable (4CPRT) have been urged to develop tailor-made waste disposal and management measures that are of practical use and application to circumstances in...

PIONEERING ELECTRIC VEHICLE COURSE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED

Government of Samoa · April 9, 2025

[PRESS RELEASE – 9 APRIL 2025] – The first ever certified local course for electric vehicle (EV) mechanics has been completed, with the participants receiving their certificates today in a ceremony held at the National University of Samoa (NUS)....

Ottawa one step closer to a plastics treaty

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · May 7, 2024

01 May 2023, Ottawa Canada - Pacific delegates are leaving Ottawa Canada exhausted but reasonably satisfied with an advanced draft text of an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment. They...

Kiribati’s lead-acid battery recycling system highlighted at Clean Pacific Roundtable

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · August 7, 2024

7 August 2024, Funafuti Tuvalu - A commercial operation to recycle used lead-acid batteries in Kiribati, where 7000 tonnes of toxic waste has been removed from the island over a twenty year period, could be replicated and used in other Pacific...

How the Kingdom of Tonga is dealing with the scourge of End of Life Vehicles

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · August 7, 2024

6 August 2024, Funafuti Tuvalu - The mountain of End of Life Vehicles (ELVs) is an imposing challenge for the Kingdom of Tonga. Statistics show that the main island of Tongatapu has accumulated more than 30,000 ELVs over the years – and with more...

Why the INC process matters to the Kingdom of Tonga and Solomon Islands

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · February 14, 2024

14 February 2024, Auckland NZ - To say the impact of plastic pollution on the Kingdom of Tonga is a problem would be stating it quite mildly. Like most Pacific islands who are at the forefront of the impacts of the escalating plastic pollution...

Voices of Pacific Women: Kathleen Taituave Afereti

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · April 27, 2024

Negotiating a Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution including in the Marine Environment 26 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - With a broad range of UN negotiations experience under her belt, Kathleen Taituave of Samoa, is a young negotiator...

Samoa, as Chair of AOSIS, flags special circumstances of SIDS at plastic treaty talks

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · April 25, 2024

24 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - As officials and negotiators sift through the revised draft text of the international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)...

Pacific delegates advocate for a key regional aspiration to be included in the plastic treaty text

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · May 1, 2024

In the final hours of the fourth round of negotiations on the revised zero draft of the global plastics treaty, Pacific delegates remain steadfast in their resolve to have a key regional aspiration on the sustainable production of primary plastic...

Pacific SIDS calls for global solidarity in addressing the plastics crisis, asks for high ambition

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · April 24, 2024

Vanuatu, speaking on behalf of the 14 Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS), has made a call for the international community to work together in fulfilling its mandate to have an international legally binding instrument on plastic...

Pacific Voice the “moral compass” in global push for plastics treaty

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · April 21, 2024

19 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - Three days from the opening of the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment...