August 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), together with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and Australia's Maritime Safety Authority, convened a workshop on Particularly...
30 August 2012: The 43rd Pacific Islands Forum convened in Rarotonga, the Cook Islands, from 28-30 August 2012, under the theme of “Large Oceans Island States – the Pacific Challenge.” Issues discussed at the meeting included the...
27 August 2012: The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) announced the outcomes of the 21st Smaller Island States (SIS) Leaders Meeting, held in Raratonga, the Cook Islands, on 27 August 2012. The meeting took decisions on the...
31 August 2012: Many Strong Voices (MSV), a collaboration between coastal communities in the Arctic and small island developing States (SIDS) that seeks to promote action on climate change, has released a paper titled “Ecosystem...
29 August 2012: Pacific members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) were urged to wrap up talks on a trade deal with the European Union this year. The Pacific island states should work towards concluding...
10 August 2012: Participants at the Pacific Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Conference of the Parties 11 (COP 11) gathered in Rotorua, New Zealand, from 10-13 August 2012, to prepare...
21 August 2012 Prime Minister Tillman Thomas of Grenada has been tapped to be the third co-chair of the Global Island Partnership (GLISPA). Thomas will join two other co-chairs, James Michel (Seychelles) and Johnson Toribiong...
Dr. David Farrell the Principal of the Caribbean Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) and Dr. Lorna Innis, Deputy Director of the Coastal Zone Management Unit (CZMU) spent a week visiting several locations in Kiribati to...
The Solomon Islands Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources has been precluded from planning approporate management of offshore fisheries due to lack of updated laws and a tuna managemen plan to address regional fisheries...
A paper has recently been published on the development of social policies in two underdeveloped South Pacific countries, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. The nature of these policies is described in the paper, which also discusses...