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Climate change and low-lying Pacific islands: a plain person's guide to global warming, sea-level rise, and the threat to Pacific Islands [pdf]  new

This paper provides a sea level rise analysis and climate change forecasts. It provides simple and credible explanations in response to the three underlying questions which skeptics and everyday people are preoccupied: - Is global warming contributing to the rate of sea-level rise? - Why do the rates of sea-level rise vary from place to place? and - What is the threat to low-lying islands? This paper also suggests that scientists and those charged with the responsibility for developing and implementing practical strategies to deal with climate change, need to look closer at the current short and medium term trends and the extremes (Phillip Hall, 2008).

http://www.faerberhall.com/papers_enviro/pdf/Sea%20Level%20Rise.pdf

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A Strategic Environmental Assessment of Fiji's Tourism Development Plan (PDF)  pop

Prepared by Roger Levett & Richard McNally, Worldwide Fund for Nature South Pacific Programme (WWF-SPP) Suva, Fiji May 2003. The World Wide Fund for Nature - South Pacific Programme (WWF-SPP) and ADB formed a partnership agreement to carry out a 'Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of Fiji's Tourism Development Plan'. This case study was chosen because tourism is the fastest growing industry in Fiji with potentially significant impacts on its natural and social environment.

http://www.adb.org/projects/pres/pres_case_05.pdf

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Helping Promote Renewable Energy in Fiji Islands

The Asian Development Bank has approved $650,000 in technical assistance project to help the Fiji Islands prepare a project that will expand the Fiji Electricity Authority's (FEA's) program for renewable and indigenous resources, and to upgrade FEA's transmission and distribution networks. The technical assistance will also assess FEA's financial performance, analyze the "climate-proofing" of the proposed project to withstand extreme climate events, and assess the possibility of using the clean development mechanism for the project.

http://www.adb.org/Media/Articles/2006/9393-Fiji-Islands-power/

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Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: Population and Reproductive Health as Critical Determinants

Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals. The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) goal of universal access to quality reproductive health services by 2015 is not one of the MDGs. Yet as this publication demonstrates, it is essential for meeting the MDGs. The attainment of reproductive health and reproductive rights are fundamental for development, for fighting poverty and for meeting the MDG targets. This publication shows by means of analytical graphics, the fundamental importance of addressing population and reproductive health for achieving the MDGs.

http://www.mdgender.net/resources/monograph_detail.php?MonographID=35

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ADB's Pacific Region Environmental Strategy - PRES

ADB is undertaking a study for the Formulation of an ADB Pacific Region Environmental Strategy (RETA 6039) to develop an operational framework for both environmentally-related assistance to the region, as well as to mainstream environmental considerations into all aspects of ADB's operations in the PDMCs. The strategy is being developed in a consultative manner and will cover 2005-2009. We actively seek your comments on and suggestions for improving this latest version of the draft strategy [ PDF: 844kb | 147 Pages ], which has been revised based on comments and feedback received from various stakeholders.

http://www.adb.org/projects/pres/

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Bulldozing Progress: Human Rights Abuse and Corruption in PNG's Large Scale Logging Industries

The logging industry in Papua New Guinea is dominated by a handful of Malaysian companies and is is synonymous with political corruption, police racketeering and the brutal repression of workers, women and those who question its ways. Its operations routinely destroy the food sources, water supplies and cultural property of those same communities. They provide a breeding ground for arms smuggling, corruption and violence across the country. In return, the industry generates no lasting economic benefit to forest communities, considerable long-term cost and a modest 5 per cent contribution to the national budget. A concerted international effort backed by credible enforcement agencies is now needed to reform the industry and restore the human and economic rights of PNG forest communities. (Australian Conservation Foundation, 2006)

http://www.acfonline.org.au/uploads/res_ACF-CELCOR_full.pdf#search=%22Bulldozing%20%22

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Canada-South Pacific Ocean Development Program

The Canada-South Pacific Ocean Development (C-SPODP) Program is Canada's major regional commitment to the Pacific Islands. It reflects the Canadian and Pacific belief that ocean development is a key priority and focuses on the sustainable development of the Pacific region's living marine resources and promotes regional partnership, ownership, and accountability for the program's results C-SPODP projects are developed and implemented by the program's four participating Pacific regional partner organizations -- the South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency, Solomon Islands; the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Fiji; the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, Samoa; and The University of the South Pacific, Fiji. The projects are approved and managed by a committee of the regional organizations and CIDA. All projects funded through C-SPOD ensure equity and balanced benefits for all Pacific Islanders, including children, women, and men. They also are concerned with environmental sustainability and encouraging the involvement of the private sector. Sea turtle conservation, tuna management plans, ocean pollution control, marine ornamentals export, projects supporting women in fisheries, and Marine Studies Programme post-graduate scholarships are among some of the diverse projects.

http://www.c-spodp.org

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Celebrating Pacific Islands Biodiversity: Case Studies of Island Life

In this publication, the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) offers a snapshot of work undertaken in the Pacific region that will contribute to the implementation of the Island Biodiversity Programme of Work as accepted by the 8th Confence of the Parties (COP8) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). (SPRP, 15 November 2006)

http://www.sprep.org/att/publication/000497_IslandLife.pdf

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Climate Variability and Change and Sea-level Rise in the Pacific Islands Region (PDF)

South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, 2003. This Resource Book has been written to provide policy- and decision-makers in Pacific Island Countries with a coherent, authoritative and readily accessible body of knowledge and resource materials that characterise the region's resilience and vulnerability to climate and sea-level variability and change and identify a suite of proven and potential response options that are deserving of further consideration and implementation. Its second objective is to provide educators, outreach and related practitioners with an integrated and functional resource portfolio for use in formal education and professional development programmes and in support of efforts to enhance political and public awareness of the implications of global and regional variability and change for the Pacific Islands Region. The Book comprises four main sections, reflecting the four principal dimensions of the climate issue - the changing climate, the observed and potential impacts, and the two broad categories of policy responses and actions, namely mitigation and adaptation. SPREP is publishing the book in collaboration with the Global Environment Bureau of the Japan Ministry of the Environment, which funded the whole project. The book will be available in the first quarter of 2003. This prepublication Web version is made available as a service to those interested in the subject.

http://www.sidsnet.org/pacific/sprep/Climate_Change_Web/Index.htm

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Climate Witness community toolkit

This toolkit was developed to help local communities in the Pacific region identify and participate in appropriate adaptation measures. It seeks to provide facilitators with a clear sense of process in the collection of information specific to the impacts of climate change and in developing appropriate community responses.(WWF South Pacific programme, 2007)

http://www.wwfpacific.org.fj/publications/climate_change/cw_toolkit.pdf

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Collaborating for Sustainability: A Resource Kit for Facilitators of Participatory Natural Resource Management in the Pacific

By Sango Mahanty and Natasha Stacey. South Pacific Regional Environment Programme. 2004. This resource kit was developed from material prepared for and delivered during a series of regional training workshops implemented by the International Waters Project (IWP), SPREP on behalf of 14 Pacific Island Countries during 2003. This kit is one of a number of resources being produced with the support of IWP and other programmes within SPREP and other regional and international agencies that give more attention to these human factors in natural resource management. Some of the material and approaches are new and innovative. Others have been in practice and proven their value for improved resource management for some time.

http://www.sprep.org/iwp/documents/IWP_Chapter_1_000.doc

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Communiqué from the Pacific Commonwealth Meeting

Civil society representatives from eight Commonwealth countries of the Pacific (Aotearoa/New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea, Niue, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga and Tuvalu) met in Wellington from 18-19 July to discuss issues affecting the region as well as obstacles and opportunities for resolving them.

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/PacificCWealth_Statement_WlgJul07_FINAL_.doc

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Compilation of mining, oil and gas projects currently in operation or under planning in the South Pacific

01.04.2004. Current and future mining, oil and gas projects in the South Pacific Compilation by Pazifik Netzwerk.

http://www.pazifik-infostelle.org/news/55958.html

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Cry for Acheh

In the past decade Exxon Mobil has earned $US40 billion from exploiting Acheh's resources. This Achenese pleads with shareholders at an ExxonMobil annual meeting in Texas to stop supporting the Indonesian military forces in Acheh which continue to commit atrocities on innocent villagers in the name of protecting the company's interests. (Cut Zahara Hamza, Pacific Ecologist, Autumn/Winter 2004)

http://www.pacificecologist.org/archive/cryforacheh.html

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ECO - Environment and Conservation Organisations of Aotearoa New Zealand

This is the virtual home of ECO. ECO is an umbrella group of environment and conservation organisations in New Zealand. This website has information about ECO and its member groups as well as news of the environment in Aotearoa New Zealand.

http://www.eco.org.nz/

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Environment Division: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Enironmental issues that affect New Zealand are not always confined within our borders and cannot always be managed within New Zealand (or in any one country). When environmental pressures arise from global developments they require a global response. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade is responsible for New Zealand's contribution to international efforts to address these pressures. The Environment Division leads this work, which includes negotiating and servicing multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and managing New Zealand's input into the work of international environmental institutions such as the United Nations Environment Programme. It involves close contact with domestic agencies, with other countries, and with a host of civil society groups and individuals

http://www.mft.govt.nz/foreign/env/default.html

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Environmental Indicators: South Pacific

UNEP has published new Environmental Indicators Reports to assist countries of Asia-Pacific measure progress towards sustainable development goals. Published in simple, graphical form they allow policy makers to use benchmarks and assess trends in 30 different economic, social and environmental areas. (UNEP, 2006)

http://www.rrcap.unep.org/indicator/ISP.pdf

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Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior - Special memorial edition

David Robie's Eyes of Fire is republished To mark the twentieth anniversary of the sinking of the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior by French secret agents, David Robie has republished his work Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior. This edition includes a postscript by Robie that brings us up to date with some of the many players from this remarkable human rights story. On 10 July 1985, French secret agents bombed the Greenpeace campaign flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour. The environmental ship had arrived in New Zealand to prepare for an anti-nuclear protest voyage to Moruroa Atoll in French Polynesia. Portuguese-born photographer Fernando Pereira died in the sabotage outrage that shook the world. The bombed ship was 'buried' off Matauri Bay in 1987 to form an ecological reef and a new Rainbow Warrior was commissioned. A decade later, under mounting Pacific pressure, France abandoned its unpopular nuclear tests. This book is the tale of the last voyage of the bombed ship to the Marshall Islands and the impact of nuclear testing on Rongelap Atoll and in French Polynesia.

http://www.southpacificbooks.co.nz/robie.asp

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Focus on the Pacific Islands: Climate Change

id21 insights. Many Pacific islands are extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change such as sea level rise. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that sea levels will rise by between 0.09 and 0.88 metres by 2100 and continue rising after this. Higher sea levels will cause coastal flooding and have adverse effects on biodiversity, soils and water supplies. Pacific Islanders will be among the first people forced to adapt or ultimately relocate.

http://www.id21.org/insights/insights53/insights-iss53-art07.html

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Forest Minister Tries To Gag Debate

Forest Minister, Patrick Pruaitch, is resorting to ever more desperate measures to try and silence the debate over Papua New Guinea's notoriously corrupt and destructive logging industry. After attempts to prevent discussion of key issues spectacularly backfired at last months Forest Law Enforcement Seminar organised by the PNG Forest Authority, the Minister has now demanded that Forestry Officials do not 'participate, facilitate or engage' in any 'seminars, conferences or studies' that are not personally approved by himself. (Masalai i tokaut, 20 November 2006)

http://img.scoop.co.nz/media/pdfs/0611/Masalai49ForestMinistergags.pdf

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Future Pacific fish stocks in peril

If current (over) fishing trends in the Pacific continue then local communities in this region will face a drastic depletion in their future food resources. Two key Pacific tuna species (bigeye and yellowfin) are already in trouble and unless we see a drastic cut in fishing rates, they will be severely depleted within three years. Foreign nations take nearly all the fish, giving Pacific nations 5 percent of the USD $2 billion the fish is worth annually. (Greenpeace, 22 September 2006)

http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/news-and-events/news/overfishing/dodgy-pirate-fishing

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Global International Waters Assessment: Pacific Islands

This report presents the GIWA assessment of the Pacific Islands region. The region is unique because its inhabitants, who have close links with, and great cultural, economic and spiritual dependence on, their terrestrial and marine environment, are often the owners and users of these resources and ultimately govern their conservation and sustainable use. The root causes of overexploitation and freshwater shortage are illustrated using several case studies and potential policy options to mitigate these problems in the future are discussed. (UNEP, GIWA, 2004)

http://www.giwa.net/areas/reports/r62/giwa_regional_assessment_62.pdf

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GreenPeace Australia Pacific

Greenpeace Australia was founded in 1977 and joined forces with Greenpeace Pacific in 1998. Together we have more than 130,000 supporters who are the backbone of Greenpeace Australia Pacific. Greenpeace forms partnerships with other non-government organisations (NGOs). For example, in the Pacific, we join forces to help local communities (the customary owners of 97% of the coastal resources and forests that are under threat) achieve alternative, sustainable methods of development. Greenpeace also works at the grassroots with our local group members. We encourage our volunteers - people from all walks of life - to get involved in our campaigns at every level.

http://www.greenpeace.org.au/

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Illegal Logging in Papua and China's Massive Timber Theft [PDF 1186 kb]]

EIA/Telapak, February 2005. The report exposes for the first time the complex web of middlemen and financiers from across the region responsible for masterminding the theft of Indonesia's forests. From the millionaire timber barons in Jakarta and the officials on their payrolls, the story traces the role of multinational companies in Malaysia, brokers in Singapore and log dealers in Hong Kong. It reveals how in a just a few short years, a small anchorage in eastern China has been transformed into the largest tropical log trading port in the world, while a nearby town has become a global centre for wood flooring manufacture, with 500 huge factories consuming one merbau tree every minute of every working day. Much of this flooring finds its way to consuming countries, including the USA and UK.

http://www2.pazifik-netzwerk.de/uploads/EIA%20Bericht%20Illegal%20Logging.pdf

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Inter-linkages Policy Brief 4 Pacific Islands Case Study (pdf)

-by Jerry Velasquez (jerry@geic.or.jp ) Uli Piest (piest@hq.unu.edu) Jacques Mougeot (JacquesM@sprep.org.ws) This publication is linked to the project Inter-linkages - Synergies and Coordination among Multilateral Environmental Agreements. The report examines approaches in three Pacific island countries (Cook Islands, Palau and Vanuatu) regarding the national and regional management of Multilateral Environmental Agreements. It covers aspects of negotiation, ratification and implementation of MEAs and looks at institutional and legal aspects as well as information management, coordination, capacity development and other facets of mechanisms to improve synergies among MEAs.

http://202.253.138.71/ENV/Files/PIC%20final.pdf

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