PacWastePlus programme continues to work with the Pacific region to manage asbestos, e-waste, and healthcare waste and address additional five new waste streams
Tag: environment
Keeping Pacific biodiversity SAFE
A project supports Pacific Island countries to improve biosecurity and combat the rapid loss of biodiversity in the region
Creating gas from food waste; Pacific island among the first to make the switch
Residents of Kadavu Island will be the first to start generating cooking gas made from food waste to help reduce the reliance on open fires for cooking
Two major projects on climate change adaptation for Vanuatu approved
Projects to improve the resilience of the coastal zone in Vanuatu to the impacts of climate change in order to sustain livelihoods, food production and preserve and improve the quality of life
Partnership to address risk of WWII oil spill at Chuuk lagoon announced
Partnership to enhance existing efforts to remove oil from the high-risk wrecks in Chuuk Lagoon that are posing significant environmental risks
New Caledonia’s green nickel plan to stand out in global market
New Caledonia to present a plan to power its nickel factories using 50 percent renewable energy by the year 2030
Professor Ratuva: let’s call it what it is, a climate crisis
A professor of Pacific studies says the term “climate crisis” is now being used to adequately describe the dramatic changes taking place in the Pacific and globally as we are in the midst of it.
‘The Pacific can’t survive if richest corporations and governments continue to put profits over people and planet’
Vanuatu PM warns that the survival of the Pacific is in peril if polluting countries continue to put profit over people and the planet.
Pacific Parliamentarians Alliance on Deep Sea Mining calls for more commitments to safeguarding our ocean from deep sea mining
The political momentum is growing in the Pacific region on Deep Sea Mining with the launch of the Pacific Parliamentarians Alliance on DSM, says PPADSM Chair
Trees shade the way to positive change
The Isi Akson project in the Solomon Islands is initiating local actions that provide nature-based solutions for climate change and biodiversity loss