Landmark decision from shipping company CMA - refusing to carry plastic waste. Any thoughts from SIDS? Will this help?

“Climate Islands” - a new Podcast series exploring the issues of climate change and coastal communities in Papua New Guinea.
Climate Islands aims to shine a spotlight on island communities most vulnerable to the effects of Climate Change - and how communities and individuals are working toward solutions to mitigate these effects.
Climate Islands is produced by the UNDP Papua New Guinea Country office.

Click on the link below to listen to it on Spotify!
https://open.spotify.com/show/4r3AQygawkH7njHZ1VVPsX

GEF ISLANDS is officially launched!!

Heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped to make this happen during the BRS COP in Geneva this week - we look forward to exciting years ahead.

Please find the recording attached as well as the press release.

Join the ISLANDS Communities of Practice to keep in touch and be part of a global movement to beat pollution in island nations!

Niue declares bold plan to protect 100% of its ocean

"I know that Pacific women have a key role to play in your recovery, and in your economic development.
Societies work better, economies work better, communities work better, when we remove barriers to the participation of women and girls, when all have an equal place in national life.
As the countries of the Pacific continue to chart a course to recovery from the challenges of COVID, we know that women and girls – their status, their participation, their education, their safety – will be a vital part of that recovery.
We will always seek to work in partnership with our Pacific Family."

-Hon Penny Wong, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Government of Australia
Penny Wong - Senator for SA

Fiji taps into nature-based solutions to boost its ecosystems and economy

Fiji has an abundance of natural resources, and lacks the intense demographic, economic and industrial pressures that cause many serious environmental issues. Still, the Small Island Developing State (SIDS) must contend daily with environmental challenges caused by the global climate crisis, including sea level rise, coastal erosion and bleaching of corals.

These in turn cause loss of biodiversity which impacts livelihoods and food security. The global mismanagement of plastic waste has not spared Fiji either, with plastic waste increasingly contaminating the country’s shorelines and oceans.

To address these issues, Fiji has been looking towards innovative, nature-based solutions – approaches that use the power of nature to reduce climate risks and ensure human well-being and biodiversity benefits.

Here Mr. Joshua Wycliffe, the Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Environment in Fiji, discusses the country’s experience.