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PNA FISHERIES MINISTERS TO VISIT NORO TUNA TOWN
Solomon Islands Government
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June 12, 2023
PNA FISHERIES MINISTERS TO VISIT NORO TUNA TOWN Honiara, 12th June 2023: Solomon Islands Minister for Fisheries and Marine Resources Honourable Nestor Giro is leading a high-level delegation of Fisheries Ministers of the Parties to the Nauru...
AOSIS offers waste management options for plastics treaty
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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June 11, 2023
04 June 2023, Paris France - The proposed legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, discussed at the second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-2) working to develop it, must...
Pacific voice loud and clear at plastic treaty negotiations in Paris
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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June 6, 2023
Q and A with H.E Ambassador Ilana Seid, Permanent Representative of Palau to the UN and Chair of Pacific Small Island Developing States 2 June 2023, Paris France – Nearly 200 countries are meeting in Paris this week to negotiate one of the most...
HONIARA ON TRACK TO HOST PNA 18 MINISTERIAL MEETING
Solomon Islands Government
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June 6, 2023
HONIARA ON TRACK TO HOST PNA 18 MINISTERIAL MEETING Honiara, 4 June 2023: The Solomon Islands Government through the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR) is on track to host the upcoming Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) 18th...
Ambitious targets needed to eliminate problematic single-use plastic waste
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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May 8, 2023
25 April 2023, Rarotonga, Cook Islands - Plastics are found in all the world’s oceans - on remote shorelines, in coastal waters, in the seabeds of the deep oceans and even in uninhabited atolls and islands of the Pacific. Without new and effective...
Office of the Governor – News Release – Gov. Green Announces Interim Appointees to the State Board of Education
Governor of State of Hawaii
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June 3, 2023
HONOLULU, HI – Governor Josh Green, M.D. has named three interim appointees to serve on the State Board of Education (BOE). Warren Haruki, who recently retired from several executive positions, has been appointed to serve as the new board chair....
Need for independent science during plastic treaty negotiations
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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June 2, 2023
2 June 2023, Paris France - Poor science heard during the negotiations for a new Plastics Treaty has caused concern for the Scientists Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty. A group of approximately 240 scientists representing over 250...
Office of the Governor – News Release – Gov. Green Announces Interim Appointees to the State Board of Education
Governor of State of Hawaii
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June 3, 2023
HONOLULU, HI – Governor Josh Green, M.D. has named three interim appointees to serve on the State Board of Education (BOE). Warren Haruki, who recently retired from several executive positions, has been appointed to serve as the new board chair....
Tuvalu negotiator optimistic about ongoing plastic treaty negotiations
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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June 2, 2023
02 June 2023, Paris France - Slow progress is better than no progress at all. That’s the view of the Director of Tuvalu’s Department of Waste Management, Mr Epu Falega, as negotiations at the second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating...
It’s not about money, it’s about precious lives, Nauru at plastics treaty negotiations
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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June 2, 2023
02 June 2023, Paris France - Nauru might be a small country with a population of around 10,000 people on a single island in the Pacific Ocean but its voice is loud and clear at the second Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to...
New Zealand advocates ‘design of plastic waste out of system’ at treaty negotiations
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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June 2, 2023
02 June 2023, Paris France - An ambitious, robust and legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution including that within our marine environment must target the top of the waste hierarchy, reduce plastic waste, or avoid generating it in the...
Kiribati calls for a strong global commitment to upstream measures to solve the plastic crisis
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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June 2, 2023
1 June 2023, Paris France – Thirty-three coral atolls and islands are dispersed among the three groups that form Kiribati, which are the Gilbert, Line, and Phoenix islands. Covering a land area of 810km2, the island groups are spread over a vast...
Punching above its weight, Pacific leads calls for ambitious targets to end global plastic pollution
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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June 2, 2023
Q and A with Mr Sefanaia Nawadra, Director-General of SPREP. 1 June 2023, Paris France - The first scientific findings of marine plastic debris were published in 1972 and reported on small plastic particles found in the Sargasso Sea. Ten years...
Solomon Islands calls for global plastic production reduction, plans national plastic ban
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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June 2, 2023
31 May 2023, Paris France - The pristine beaches, vibrant forests and colourful reefs of 992 islands of the Solomon Islands are threatened by increasing plastic litter arriving on its shores, and from discarded plastic waste locally. In the...
‘Is that the world we want to bequeath our grandchildren?’ UN Ocean Envoy laments plastic crisis impact on Ocean
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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June 2, 2023
01 June 2023, Paris France - As the negotiations pick up speed at the second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee charged with producing an international legally binding instrument to control plastic pollution, including in the...
The Pacific Islands articulate their asks in the new Plastic Treaty
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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June 2, 2023
1 June 2023, Paris France - Many of us know it as just ‘plastic’, or ‘single-use plastic’ or even ‘micro-plastics’ but for those now negotiating a plastic treaty they know it as plastic polymers, “virgin” plastics and even “secondary” plastics....
Pacific Women Negotiators take the lead
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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June 2, 2023
Ms Anama Solofa, Lead Negotiator on Ocean Issues, Alliance of Small Island States 1 June 2023, Paris France - More than 190 governments are now negotiating a new global treaty to end plastic pollution through an Intergovernmental Negotiation...
Fiji committed to global cooperation for an ambitious and robust plastics treaty
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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June 1, 2023
31 May 2023, Paris France - The voice of Fiji was heard during a meeting of 193 governments tasked with the responsibility of developing a legally binding agreement to address the plastic pollution crisis. The second Intergovernmental Negotiating...
Australia reaffirms support for Pacific countries, commits to ambitious plastics treaty
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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June 1, 2023
31 May 2023, Paris France –Australia has reiterated its commitment to negotiating an ambitious and legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution by 2040. The commitment during the opening plenary of INC-2 at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris...
Pacific Tourism Organisation Announces New Digital Champions Program
Pacific Tourism Organisation
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June 1, 2023
The Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO), is pleased to announce newly appointed Pacific Digital Champions, under the New Zealand government-funded Pacific Digital Tourism Transformation Project (Phase 2). In support of the SPTO Digital Strategy...