
Discussions

The Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Solutions Forum
30-31 August 2021. The Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Solutions Forum enhance information exchange to facilitate development. It gathered Heads of Governments, UN agencies, and representatives from a wide spectrum of...

Remittances in the Pacific Islands: Challenges and Solutions
The importance of remittances is widely recognised, and awareness has become even more pronounced as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. A number of global goals have been developed over the years to address the challenges facing...

Global Climate Change Alliance Plus - Scaling up Pacific Adaptation project holds initial meeting in Fiji
Delegates from ten Pacific Island countries are gathering in Suva, Fiji this week for the inception and planning meeting of the Global Climate Change Alliance Plus - Scaling up Pacific Adaptation (GCCA+ SUPA) project. The €15...

Cook Islands introduce mobile app Tails to record and manage fish catches
A mobile phone application that helps record small-scale fish catches was launched this month by the Cook Islands. The launch adds this self-governing group of islands to the wider network of Pacific island countries that collect...

Project breaks new ground with exciting way to share climate change adaptation knowledge in the Pacific
In a new approach to contribute to the growing body of knowledge on climate change adaptation in the Pacific, the Global Climate Change Alliance: Pacific Small Island States project ran a series of eight roadshows in November 2015...

GCCA Pacific Small Island stories featured at the Pacific Climate Change Roundtable
At the Pacific Climate Change Roundtable (PCCR), held in Samoa 12-14 May 2015, 190 climate change practitioners mainly from the Pacific region and also from the international arena, met to review the delivery of the Pacific...

New training course 'Pathways to climate change adaptation: the case of Small Island Developing States'
This free online course by the University of Geneva provides an overview of climate change adaptation for the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) with a focus on the environmental perspective. It will present the key concepts...