Tonga shares experience after trialing an Impact Analysis tools that gauge the level of awareness and preparedness of the affected coastal community to climate change disasters
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Use sand resources ‘wisely’ or risk development fallout – UNEP report
Given our dependency on sand, the UNEP report finds sand must be recognised as a strategic resource with multiple roles in the environment and its extraction and use needs to be rethought
Protecting our turtles, now and into the future
Review of Vanuatu’s turtle management and conservation to promote the recovery of the Pacific’s turtle populations considering climate change, coastal development, and offshore tuna by-catch
New coastal monitoring system in Papua New Guinea
PNG’s new coastal monitoring system to allow NMSA to understand and act on threats to maritime safety, security and the marine environment in busy shipping routes
Pacific fisheries leaders emphasise building resilience and strengthening recovery in fisheries
Pacific fisheries leaders recognised the urgency to strengthen recovery and build resilience as the region struggles from COVID-19 alongside climate change effects on fisheries
Commonwealth countries pilot new tool to gauge climate and ocean risks
A new approach to allow commonwealth participating countries on the frontlines of the climate crisis to assess and tackle climate vulnerability and risks in coastal communities
Who will pay for the damage caused by climate change?
Talking about who is responsible for climate change is a fraught debate – even more so when it comes to who ought to pay for the damage it causes.
Great Pacific Garbage Patch now ‘an immense floating plastic habitat’
A giant patch of garbage in the Pacific Ocean is now “an immense floating plastic habitat” for marine animals clinging to its plastic debris, researchers have found
King tides wreak havoc on islands in Manus and East Sepik Province
The rise in sea level and king tides now affecting more than 30,000 lives on coastal Manus will continue through 2022, according to the Manus Province disaster office.
Pacific Ocean garbage patch is immense plastic habitat
Scientists have discovered marine animals living on plastic debris in an area of the open ocean dubbed “the Great Pacific Garbage Patch”.