As a result of increased longevity and decreased fertility rates, the number of older people is increasing in absolute terms and as a proportion of the population. This transition is happening at an unprecedented pace in the Asia and Pacific region. Population aging has major economic and social implications, including raising concerns about who will provide care for growing numbers of older people with more long-term and complex care needs
This Pacific conservation or this Talanoa session is about the State of Environment and Conservation (SOEC) regional report 2020.
The aim of the webinar is to update you, our members and partners about the online resources to support your work in the region. To raise awareness regarding the Pacific SOEC website and to answer your question on what resources available on this website.
Climate change poses a major threat to the Pacific way of life despite the region’s countries contributing negligibly towards the climate warming greenhouse gas emissions. It poses a major risk to the economic, social and environmental progress of the region and exacerbates risks of realising the fundamental human rights. With the increasing frequency and intensity of climate-induced events such as cyclones and droughts, Pacific economies run the risk of losing decades of development gains in a matter of hours to the perils of a rapidly changing climate.
Tropical Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures have persisted at ENSO neutral values for several weeks. Below the surface, much of the tropical Pacific is now at near average temperatures. Atmospheric indicators are also generally at neutral ENSO levels. The Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) is close to zero, while trade winds are currently being enhanced by the Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO). Only cloudiness near the Date Line continues to show a weak La Niña like signature.
The work of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in the Pacific energy sector is empowering people and communities. Energy
sector operations in ADB’s Pacific developing member countries (DMCs) are financing new sources of renewable power, supply side
energy efficiency, and battery energy storage systems (BESSs) to help grids absorb intermittent sources of power. In addition,
these operations are supporting stakeholders to improve sector governance, sustainability, regulation, and management.
The Asia and the Pacific Sustainable Development Goals Progress Report 2021 comes at a time when the effects of Covid-19 pandemic have already been felt across the economic, social and environments dimensions of development. in 2020, at the dawn of the Decade of Action to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), how was Asia and the Pacific faring? And how is the Covid-19 pandemic impacting progress the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific?
There is presently no single international organization or convention that establishes rules of general application management, potentially creating conflicts and gaps and making it difficult ti take a comprehensive global approach issue of waste management.
Asbestos is a known health hazard, and may be present in your home, but it may not be a risk, depending on its condition. In this publication we provide useful information on how to live safely with asbestos.
Pacific countries and territories are members of SPC and give SPC strategic guidance and operational priorities. We will present the way SPC is building and implementing projects in countries and territories respectful of our member's social, environmental and economic contexts.Concrete examples of the way we collaborate across our sectoral specialists to generate a dynamic interplay of capabilities, leading to creative approaches to development challenges Environmental degradation, climate change and disasters will be shown.
Jamie Daves will introduce the PEUMP Programme and the By-catch and Integrated Ecosystem Management (BIEM) Initiative before introducing DR. Pilcher.After his presentation he will be joined by a panel of experts to secure their views on how the assessment can be improved and used to ensure that the assessment provides a strong foundation to strengthen national and regional conservation and management efforts to reduce extinction risk of these iconic species. This will be followed by a short Q&A session with D. Pilcher and panel members who will represent the Pacific government agency, national turtle monitoring network, turtle harvesting and sales researcher the Pacific Community (SPC) and National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
