Conserving and managing global natural capital requires an understanding of the complexity of flows of ecosystem services across geographic boundaries.
J-PRISM supported Pacific Island Countries (PICs)to attend the Fourth Regional 3R Forum in Asia held in Ha Noi, Viet Nam from 1820 March 2013, which is a high level Forum co-organized by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE)/Government of Vietnam, Ministry of the Environment of the Government of Japan (MoEJ), and the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) to promote 3R, proper waste disposal, and resource efficiency.
As countries across the Pacific grow concerned about the dwindling of,and damage to,resources in the worlds oceans, there is an effort to develop plans to sustainably integrate human use and marine conservation. Marine spatial planning (MSP) is a practical way of organising the human use of marine areas to balance the demands of human activities with the need to protect the health of the ecosystems on which those activities depend.
This review of the invasive land vertebrates present on islands of the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) region is part of a larger review of the invasive plants and animals that have affected these islands adversely.
This special issue of the Pacific Economic Monitor celebrates the 52nd ADB Annual Meeting (15 May 2019) in Fijithe first time this yearly gathering is held in the Pacific. The first section on Country Economic Issues contains the latest near-term economic outlook for the Pacific, as well as medium- to long-term policy challenges, as presented in Asian Development Outlook 2019.
The first stage of the PacWaste (Pacific Hazardous Waste) project was a four year (2013-2017), 7.85 million, project funded by the European Union and implemented by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) to improve regional hazardous waste management in 14 Pacific island countries, plus Timor Leste, targeting the priority areas of healthcare waste, asbestos, E-waste and integrated atoll solid waste management
A major of the Pacific POPs Release Reduction Project is to enable regional parties to the Stockholm Convention to meet their national obligations to improve the management of chemicals.
