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A key message highlighted during the meeting include the urgent need for regional collaboration on managing, sharing utilising and delivering climate change and disaster risk data and information to inform reporting and decision-making.

The Republic of Kiribati is a Pacific Micronesian small island state comprised of three island groups:the more populous Gilbert Islands in the West, the largely uninhabited Phoenix Islands in the middle and Line Islands to the East.

The ocean is on the front lines of the battle against climate change. It already has absorbed 93 percent of the heat trapped by human-generated carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions. It absorbs 25-30 percent of annual CO 2 emissions that would otherwise remain in the atmosphere and increase global warming.

Concerned about the accelerating impacts of climate change, cognizant of the paucity of attention to ocean-based mitigation options, and motivated to accelerate progress to address climate change, the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy (HLP) asked us...

The implementation of marine spatial planning (MSP) is bringing together a new body of practitioners who are largely drawn from related professions but have relatively little specific education, training or qualifications in MSP.

Bleaching and disease are decimating coral reefs especially when warming promotes bleaching pathogens, such as Vibrio coralliilyticus.

Biodiversity offsets (BO) are increasingly promoted and adopted by governments and companies worldwide as a policy instrument to compensate for biodiversity losses from infrastructure development projects.

he coastal zones of Small Island States are hotspots of human habitation and economic endeavour.

Considerable studies were conducted in recent years with the aim of improving the resilience of infrastructure to disasters in the Pacific region which is increasingly prone to extreme weather events

Responding to the impact of climate change is high on the agenda of all Pacific island countries. Communities that live on low-lying atolls, like the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) are particularly vulnerable.