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Voices of Pacific Women: Kathleen Taituave Afereti
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 27, 2024
Negotiating a Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution including in the Marine Environment 26 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - With a broad range of UN negotiations experience under her belt, Kathleen Taituave of Samoa, is a young negotiator...
Solomon Islands calls on the global community to address the gaps regarding chemicals of concern in the plastic treaty
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 26, 2024
Addressing the gap between the few chemicals in plastics that are regulated globally and the growing number of chemicals of concern that are known to be used in plastics but are not identified for listing either for elimination, avoidance and...
Three-point Q and A with Head of Delegation from Niue at the INC4 on plastic pollution
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 26, 2024
25 April 2024, Ottawa, Canada - The fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-4), is taking place from 23 to...
Plastic treaty should reflect comprehensive approach across full lifecycle of plastics – Kingdom of Tonga
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 25, 2024
25 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - An international legally binding instrument to address plastic pollution should reflect a comprehensive approach across the full lifecycle of plastics, respect national circumstances, and be accompanied by accessible...
Partnerships formalised at Plastics Treaty talks to empower a resilient Cook Islands
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 25, 2024
25 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - Enhancing Cook Islands capacity and learning opportunities when it comes to science, environment and legal policy is at the core of a partnership between the National Environment Service and Monash University in...
Balancing the scales, addressing the disproportionate impact of marine plastic pollution on indigenous communities in the Pacific
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 25, 2024
24 April 2024, Ottawa Canada – In the village of Nacamaki on the Island of Koro in Fiji, villagers would at certain times of the year take part in a sacred ancient ceremony where they would make their way to the beach, chant songs, sound the horn...
Voices of Pacific Women: Diana Hinge Salili
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 25, 2024
Negotiating a Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution including in the Marine Environment 24 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - Seeing this Pacific Island woman still active in the UN negotiation space is rewarding given the first time she was...
Samoa, as Chair of AOSIS, flags special circumstances of SIDS at plastic treaty talks
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 25, 2024
24 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - As officials and negotiators sift through the revised draft text of the international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)...
Pacific SIDS calls for global solidarity in addressing the plastics crisis, asks for high ambition
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 24, 2024
Vanuatu, speaking on behalf of the 14 Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS), has made a call for the international community to work together in fulfilling its mandate to have an international legally binding instrument on plastic...
Commonwealth Countries Strategized Collective Action On 30% Marine Protection By 2030
EIN Presswire
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April 24, 2024
Commonwealth countries united to strategize collective action towards 30% marine protection by the year 2030. PAPHOS, CYPRUS, April 24, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Commonwealth countries united to strategize collective action towards 30% marine...
Voices of Pacific Women: Tekura Moeka’a
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 24, 2024
Negotiating a Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution including in the Marine Environment 23 April 2024, Ottawa, Canada - For this young Cook Islands woman, she found it was a matter of “fight or flight” when it came to her very first UN...
Canada shows the way to address plastic pollution and calls on members to make INC-4 count
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 24, 2024
23 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - Canada, the host country of the fourth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-4), is showing the...
Fiji calls on the plastics treaty to comprehensively address the full lifecycle of ghost fishing gear
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 23, 2024
21 April 2024, Ottawa Canada -Fiji contributes a fraction of one per cent of the global macroplastic leakages from abandoned, lost, discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) but bears a disproportionate burden on its devastating impact on marine life and...
Three-point Q and A with Chair of the Pacific Small Islands Developing States H.E Ambassador Odo Tevi
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 22, 2024
21 April 2024, Ottawa, Canada - The fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-4), is taking place from 23 to...
INC Chair expresses optimism for Ottawa negotiations to end with an agreed text
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 21, 2024
20 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - The Chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, Ambassador Luis Vayas Valdivieso, has...
Pacific Voice the “moral compass” in global push for plastics treaty
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 21, 2024
19 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - Three days from the opening of the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment...
Tonga on the path to phasing out single-use plastics, recognises the importance of national actions in meeting future plastics treaty obligations
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 19, 2024
19 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - Despite the challenges associated with being a small island developing state, the Kingdom of Tonga is making significant strides towards addressing the very visible problem of plastics. Tonga will soon finalise a...
Three-point Q and A with Palau’s Chief Negotiator Ms Gwen Sisior
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 19, 2024
The fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-4), is taking place from 23 to 29 April 2024 in Ottawa, Canada....
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin’s Regular Press Conference on April 3, 2024
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the People's Republic of China
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April 3, 2024
At the invitation of the Chinese government, Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of the Kingdom of Thailand will visit China from April 4 to 10. Aside from Beijing, HRH Princess Sirindhorn will also visit Sichuan. Phoenix TV: What...
Members of the Alliance of Small Island States comb through revised draft text of plastics treaty on eve of INC-4
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 19, 2024
18 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - Pacific members of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) have joined the group’s member states in Ottawa, Canada, to comb through the revised draft text of the international legally binding instrument on...