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Two Million Dollar Agreement For Pacific Renewable Energy
Tuesday, 7 May 2013, 12:06 pm | SPREP
Two Million Dollar Agreement For Renewable Energy In the Pacific 6 May, Nadi, Fiji – A major highlight of the opening session of a regional meeting relating to renewable energy and energy efficiency in the Pacific was the signing of a two ... More >>
Launch of Post Graduate Marine Conservation Scholarship
Wednesday, 24 April 2013, 11:02 am | SPREP
PRESS RELEASE Launch of Post Graduate Scholarship In Memory of Marine Conservationist 23 April 2013 - The Lui Bell Post-Graduate Scholarship for Marine Species Conservation was launched by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) ... More >>
The Children Take Action: Kiribati Launch Children’s Story
Wednesday, 24 April 2013, 10:24 am | SPREP
6,000 copies of the children’s story book “The Children Take Action – a Climate Change Story” were today handed over to the Permanent Secretary for Education for delivery to all primary schools in Kiribati. More >>
Pacific urged to call for global shift to renewable energy
Thursday, 28 March 2013, 10:14 am | SPREP
A powerful challenge was made to the Small Island Developing States today at the Pacific Energy Summit in Auckland, New Zealand. Christiana Figueres, the Executive Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change called upon ... More >>
9th Pacific Islands Conference on Nature Conservation
Monday, 25 March 2013, 12:58 pm | SPREP
Registration is now open for the ninth Pacific Islands Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas to be hosted in Suva, Fiji at the end of the year. This conference is the premier event for nature conservation and protected areas work in the Pacific ... More >>
International Women’s Day: Gender Agenda Gaining Momentum
Monday, 11 March 2013, 4:57 pm | SPREP
Message from the Director-General of SPREP, Mr. David Sheppard, on International Women’s Day Date: 8 March 2013 International Women’s Day: The Gender Agenda Gaining Momentum “Talofa, Today marks a special day for all of us as we commemorate International ... More >>
Pacific Climate Change Portal Training Programme
Tuesday, 26 February 2013, 3:01 pm | SPREP
PRESS RELEASE Pacific Climate Change Portal Training Programme Heads to the Northern Pacific 22 February 2013, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia - A recently-launched regional initiative to improve online access to current and accurate climate-relevant ... More >>
SPREP signs 4.5 million dollar agreement with New Zealand
Monday, 25 February 2013, 6:13 pm | SPREP
SPREP and the New Zealand Government have today announced a new partnership to support Pacific Island countries in their efforts to manage their environment and ensure sustainable development. More >>
Lofeagai Adapting To Climate Change: 700,000 Litres Of Water
Wednesday, 20 February 2013, 4:09 pm | SPREP
20 February 2013 - A cistern that can hold 700,000 litres of water has been gifted to the community of Lofeagai in Tuvalu under the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change Project (PACC). More >>
Threats to Choiseul Province in the Solomon Islands
Wednesday, 13 February 2013, 3:54 pm | SPREP
Along with 20 other local leaders, Mr. Galo recently travelled to the provincial capital of Taro where a new Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment report was presented to representatives from community, government and development agencies. The report ... More >>
Pacific Wetlands take Care of Water
Monday, 4 February 2013, 1:19 pm | SPREP
“It’s all too easy to take the availability of safe drinking water for granted and, for some, it is not until we are without that we fully realise the vital role that water plays in our lives. In the Pacific Islands, our wetlands take care of ... More >>
Ground covered at the UN climate negotiations in Education
Monday, 10 December 2012, 12:19 pm | SPREP
4 December 2012, Doha, Qatar - By the end of the first week of UN Climate change negotiations, the agenda on Article 6 – training, education and public awareness, had reached a decision to be adopted. More >>
Chances of El Niño event decreasing this summer
Saturday, 13 October 2012, 3:30 pm | SPREP
• Vava’u Mangrove Survey successfully completed using GIS • Chances of El Niño event decreasing this summer Vava'u Mangrove Survey successfully completed using GIS 11 October 2012 - The Vava'u Mangrove Survey which used Geographical Information ... More >>
The Pacific Ocean is on the brink of El Niño
Tuesday, 7 August 2012, 4:21 pm | SPREP
The Pacific is about to enter an episode of El Niño, however the signal is mainly being seen in the ocean temperature, and not yet in the atmospheric circulation, according to the latest Island Climate Update . El Niños are usually characterised ... More >>
FCWL Launches Clean Pacific Campaign Project
Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 11:59 am | SPREP
04 July, Suva, Fiji – SPREP’s Clean Pacific Campaign was well received in the small town of Lami on the outskirts of Suva with the launch of a local Campaign project by the Catholic Women’s League. More >>
World Leaders Endorse Rio Declaration on Sustainability
Tuesday, 26 June 2012, 2:58 pm | SPREP
Pacific at Rio+20 This project providing you with coverage from the Rio+20 is supported by a partnership between the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme SPREP ( www.sprep.org ) and the Pacific Assistance Media Scheme PACMAS ( www.pacmas.org ... More >>
Stories From Islands In The Clouds – The Savaii BIORAP
Monday, 25 June 2012, 2:09 pm | SPREP
The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the Samoa Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) have recently completed a 12-day intensive survey of the wildlife in the highest point of Samoa – the Savaii upland ... More >>
Pacific at Rio+20
Monday, 25 June 2012, 2:07 pm | SPREP
This project providing you with coverage from the Rio+20 is supported by a partnership between the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme SPREP ( www.sprep.org ) and the Pacific Assistance Media Scheme PACMAS ( www.pacmas.org ) and Conservation ... More >>
First Clean Pacific 2012 Campaign Training Workshop Underway
Friday, 17 February 2012, 12:16 pm | SPREP
Headlines • First Clean Pacific 2012 Campaign training workshop underway • Nauru adopts Water Policy • Other news available: links to interviews and publications available for download at More >>
SPREP Launches Clean Pacific 2012 Campaign
Monday, 30 January 2012, 12:32 pm | SPREP
The Clean Pacific 2012 campaign will be launched in partnership with the World Wetlands Day celebrations in Apia, Samoa on 2 February. The relationship between proper waste disposal practices, management and pollution prevention and healthy wetlands is a ... More >>
