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• Clean and healthy island environments and seas that nurture and protect biodiversity, human life and supports economic growth and sustainable development.

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Pacific Waste Newsletter by SPREP

The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme has published the first in a series of newsletters that chronicles the progress of solid waste management in the Pacific islands. This newsletter is an output under the Pacific Regional Solid Waste Management Strategy 2010-2015, which is the region’s guiding document for solid waste management. The Regional Strategy, whose implementation is coordinated by the Secretariat, was developed in 2009 with assistance from the Japan International Cooperation Agency. The first newsletter briefly discusses past and upcoming regional solid waste management projects, provides a matrix of regional projects by donor, examines waste management in Tokelau, and provides a summary list of the known solid waste management activities ...(to be continued) Read More Newsletter: Six monthly update of solid waste management in the Pacific Islands->

Managing chemicals in Kiribati

A chemicals management monitoring and evaluation project in Kiribati has been completed by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP Kiribati received funding in 2008 to review and update their chemical profile and determine their national chemical management priorities. The Quick Start Programme (QSP) of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) approved funding of the project, which also included undertaking an assessment of their national SAICM capacity and the staging of a chemicals priority-setting workshop A national chemical profile outlines their current status when it comes to chemical management in Kiribati. Inventory of chemicals, along with assessing the institutional arrangements for chemicals was carried ou ...(to be continued) Read More

Assessing potential oil spills from WWII wrecks in the FSM

Oil, chemicals and unexploded ordinance from an estimated 800 World War II Wrecks throughout the exclusive economic zones of Pacific Island countries and territories pose imminent danger to people, environment and fisheries of the region. Of this total, more than 50 World War II shipwrecks can be found in Chuuk lagoon alone. Chuuk, formerly Truk, is one of the four states of the Federated States of Micronesia requesting assistance from the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) to assess the environmental risk posed by these wrecks. Read More

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