The Convention for the Protection of the Natural Resources and Environment of the South Pacific Region (1986), along with its two additional Protocols, entered into force in 1990. The Convention is a comprehensive umbrella agreement for the protection, management and development of the marine and coastal environment of the South Pacific Region, and represents the legal framework of the Action Plan for managing the Natural Resources and Environment of the South Pacific adopted in 1982 on behalf of the South Pacific Conference on Human Environment.
The Atlas is intended as an introduction to the many linkages between mining and the SDGs and complements other resources on the role of mining and the private sector in sustainable development.
Inform: Helping to strengthen governance and decision making by improving environmental data management and use across the Pacific region.
End of SPREP internship presentation, July 2015. Sections: climate finance challenges, overview of climate finance in the Pacific, and next steps.
Thisstudy provided the repeatable analysis framework to estimate the coastal population by utilizing the best available global and national datasets in Pacific (poor data environment).
Freedom of information laws could arguably be based on five fundamental principles – namely:
1. the principle of maximum disclosure
2. the principle of openness
3. the principle of limited exemptions
4. the principle of access
5. the principle of fairness and equity
This guide was written for governments, community groups and NGOs to address coastal protection issues through ecosystem based adaptation interventions. The work was developed as a partnership between SPREP and the University of Tasmania with funding from Australian Aid and the participation of the governments of Kiribati, Samoa, Vanuatu and Tonga.
Pacific Women in Geospatial Magazine, November 25, 2019, Volume 1, Issue 1.
PowerPoint presentation on the building blocks and features of the environment data portals.
PowerPoint presentation with tips on good practices, when uploading data to the environment data portals.
Fauna & Flora International (FFI). 2020. An Assessment of the Risks and Impacts of Seabed Mining on
Marine Ecosystems. FFI: Cambridge U.K. Available from: www.fauna-flora.org
Minter T, Orirana G, Boso D and van der Ploeg J. 2018. From happy hour to hungry hour: Logging, fisheries and food security in Malaita, Solomon Islands. Penang, Malaysia: WorldFish. Program Report: 2018-07.
Dunstan et al. 2018. Bioregions of the South West Pacific Ocean. CSIRO, Australia.
Map of the protected areas for the Pacific Islands Region with regional-level summary statistics on the amount of area under protection, count for each type of protected area (terrestrial or marine), and the count of their designation.
'achieving the sustainable use of deep-sea minerals for the use of humankind'