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Dealing with chemicals in plastics must be part of the global action on plastic pollution

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

30 May 2023, Paris, France – Overwhelming evidence globally shows that the toxic chemical, additives and pollutants found in plastics have serious risks to human and planetary health. Findings from a recent United Nations Environment Programme...

Magnifying Pacific issues in a global declaration on waste

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · May 22, 2024

16 May 2024 - Pacific voices were given the lens to magnify their concerns when it comes to waste management on the global stage. Over a two-day period, Pacific Islands have undergone consultations for their input into the Pre-Zero Draft...

SPEECH BY THE AMBASSADOR OF JAPAN H.E. MR. KEISUKE SENTA ON THE OCCASION OF THE PROJECT LAUNCH

Government of Samoa · May 3, 2023

SAMOA, May 3 - IOM UN MIGRATION PROJECT FOR STRENTHENING CAPACITY OF BORDER CONTROL FOR RESPONDING TO INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRIES 2 MAY 2023 Ms. Jacqueline Weekers, IOM Chief of Mission Australia and Coordinator to the Pacific,...

A Financing Perspective on Tailoring WMO Technical Assistance to Members’ Needs

World Meteorological Organization · June 7, 2024

By John Harding, CREWS Secretariat and Lina Sjaavik and Jean-Baptiste Migraine, WMO Secretariat The WMO Strategic Plan 2024–2027 envisions “a world where all nations, especially the most vulnerable, are more resilient to the socioeconomic...

President Tsai hosts state banquet for heads of state and representatives of delegations to presidential inauguration

Taiwan President News · May 19, 2024

TAIWAN, May 19 - President Tsai hosts state banquet for heads of state and representatives of delegations to presidential inauguration President Tsai hosts state banquet for heads of state and representatives of delegations to presidential...

Pacific Climate Change Centre supports Knowledge Broker Support Programme Training of Trainers

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

01 May 2023, Suva Fiji - Sixteen participants, including Australian Pacific Climate Alumni Network (APCAN) National Coordinators from Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu benefitted from a four-day...

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...

Partnerships formalised at Plastics Treaty talks to empower a resilient Cook Islands

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

25 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - Enhancing Cook Islands capacity and learning opportunities when it comes to science, environment and legal policy is at the core of a partnership between the National Environment Service and Monash University in...

Pacific negotiators feel the pressure as INC ramps up work to meet deadline

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

28 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - Delegates from 14 Pacific countries advocating their national and regional priorities at the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4) to develop an international legally binding...

3 May 2024: The Week in Australian Foreign Affairs

Australian Institute of International Affairs · May 2, 2024

This week in Australian foreign affairs: Australia-ROK 2+2 talks; Marles announces $100m new military assistance for Ukraine; Marles to travel to Hawaii for trilateral talks; New Pacific Engagement Visa announced, and more. On 1 May, Deputy Prime...

Cook Islands joins plastic treaty proposal for chemicals of concern

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

26 April 29024, Ottawa Canada - The Cook Islands, a large ocean island state is making her mighty voice heard at the Plastics Treaty negotiations now underway. The island nation, with Rwanda, has co-sponsored a proposal by Norway on how to address...

Solomon Islands calls on the global community to address the gaps regarding chemicals of concern in the plastic treaty

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · April 26, 2024

Addressing the gap between the few chemicals in plastics that are regulated globally and the growing number of chemicals of concern that are known to be used in plastics but are not identified for listing either for elimination, avoidance and...

Bridge to Busan Declaration open for signing at Plastics Treaty talks

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · April 30, 2024

29 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - Today at INC4 over two dozen countries have signed on to the Bridge to Busan Declaration. Launched at the Plastics Treaty negotiations, it invigorates the call for sustainable production levels 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...

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)...

Canada shows the way to address plastic pollution and calls on members to make INC-4 count

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

23 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - Canada, the host country of the fourth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-4), is showing the...

Fiji calls on the plastics treaty to comprehensively address the full lifecycle of ghost fishing gear

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · April 23, 2024

21 April 2024, Ottawa Canada -Fiji contributes a fraction of one per cent of the global macroplastic leakages from abandoned, lost, discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) but bears a disproportionate burden on its devastating impact on marine life and...

Journey to Ottawa: Pacific countries ready to negotiate revised draft text of plastics treaty

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

12 April 2024, Apia Samoa - To say waste generation - including plastic pollution is a global problem - would be stating things quite mildly. The statistics are in fact staggering, and even more concerning especially for Pacific countries who...

Members of the Alliance of Small Island States comb through revised draft text of plastics treaty on eve of INC-4

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · April 19, 2024

18 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - Pacific members of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) have joined the group’s member states in Ottawa, Canada, to comb through the revised draft text of the international legally binding instrument on...