This guide assists Pacific Island Countries (PICs) in the management of Disaster Waste (DW) with the main focus on key operational aspects.
The document complements the Disaster Waste Management (DWM) Guideline for Asia and the Pacific 2018, with special emphasis on the actions necessary by DWM agencies before disasters strike.
The guideline is based on international waste and disaster management principles and concepts, which form the basis of the national waste and disaster management plans.
The proper management of DW should be recognised in National Disaster Management Plans, given the complexity of modern disaster waste.
To appropriately manage waste, worker will come in contact with many materials that could be hazardous to their health, as such, a variety of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) has been designed to provide the necessary protection for them and their co-workers. The more potentially hazardous the material, the greater the need for the PPE. PPE refers to equipment or gear desirned to be worn or used to protect the body from severe injuries and illnesses. It reduces workers' exposure to workplace hazards resulting from chemicals, physical, airborne or other workplace hazards.
Small island nations face a host of logistic and financial barriers in attempts to increase local recycling rates. The exportation of recycled material presents a range of benefits for nations with the inability to dispose or reuse waste in an environmentally beneficial manner. This could be due to the shortage of landfill capacity on-island, the risk of hazardous chemical pollution or the lack of primary industries in the Pacific region. Fro some waste stream, there is a potential for commodification if export is achieve efficiently.
The contribution of PACRES to Karama will enhance the already existing knowledge in the community in terms of mangrove rehabilitation and provide alternative options for water and food security and enable disaster preparedness for the community. PACRES will also fund additional Vulnerability Needs Assessments for a number of other coastal communities in Gulf Province in 2022-23
The Pacific ocean's exceptional terrestrial and marine biodiversity offers invaluable services to communities. But for this part of the world is particularly vulnerable to climate change, which has a direct impact on ecosystems and traditional way of life. The KIWA initiative is a multi-donor program that aims to strengthen the climate resilience of ecosystems, communities and economies in the Pacific countries and territories by using Nature-based solutions (NbS) to protect, restore and sustainably manage biodiversity.
A case put forward to make best use of UNEP's Regional Seas Programme (RSP) for the convention on biological diversity's (CBD) post-2020 global biodiversity framework (GBF). A review of the work of the RSP's component Regional Seas Conventions and action plans (RSCAPs) highlights their potential for strengthening the marine and regional outlook of the GBF as well as their current limitations. Recommendations are made to the CBD, the UNEP-RSP, its RSCAPs and to their member parties/states to foster and further develop their manually reinforcing roles in supporting regional marine biodiversity dimensions.
In an age of dramatic environmental and ecological challenges, the dynamics of sovereignty associated with the
conservation of natural resources in Oceania are in flux. This article draws on the transformative work of Tongan anthropologist and political philosopher Epeli Hau‘ofa to articulate characteristics of an Oceanian Sovereignty that illuminate ongoing conceptual shifts around conservation in this region. In the wake of intensifying and accelerating environmental challenges from global warming and other hazard drivers, understanding Indigenous peoples and local communities’ deeply rooted and emerging perceptions and conceptions of rights over, responsibilities towards, and respect for, nature is a critical context for necessary
transformations within conservation science, policy and practice
La Journée mondiale de nettoyage du littoral se tient tous les troisièmes samedis de septembre. Il
s’agit de la plus grande journée de nettoyage du littoral au monde, et l’édition de 2021 marquera la
35e année d’actions réalisées dans le cadre de cette manifestation. En 2019, plus de 940 000 volontaires du monde entier ont ramassé plus de 7 300 tonnes de déchets le long de
39 500 kilomètres de plages et de cours d’eau. Depuis les 35 dernières années ou presque, plus de
50 millions de volontaires ont ramassé plus de 280 000 tonnes de déchets dans 180 pays du monde.
Les déchets marins sont un problème mondial, intergénérationnel et transfrontalier qui a des effets néfastes sur l’environnement, les populations et les économies côtières de la planète
This year in 2022, the SRWMA (Samoa Recycling &Waste Management Association) and J-PRISM II will begin a pilot project to promote plastic recycling in cooperation with the Samoa Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP). The implementation design for this pilot project has been planned and discussed since 2020, and a brand new crushing machine and an extruder machine was imported from Japan to Samoa last year , and the machine were delivered to SRMWA yard on January 17, 2022. These two wooden boxes are filled with our hopes for the upcoming pilot project, and we look forward to successfully installing and operating the machines in the near future
Despite a decade of global efforts to protect and restore biodiversity, not one of the 20 Aichi Biodiversity targets was fully achieved in 2020 deadline and biodiversity loss continues at an unprecedented rate. The convention on Biological Diversity's post-2020 global biodiversity framework (GBF) is the ambitious successor of the CBD's 2011-2020 Strategic Plan for Biodiversity. Development of the GBF and its associated monitoring and reporting framework is on-going, involving a comprehensive preparatory process.
