Bangkok, THAILAND: July 10, 2019 – 9.25AM (UNEP): Japan’s Ministry of the Environment and the United Nations Environment Programme today announced a new project to protect the environment and human health from adverse impacts of mercury. Up to $3 million will be allotted to the project, which will help establish a regional mercury monitoring laboratory Read More …
Nuku’alofa – July 9, 2019: 2.15pm (Enviro News): Members of the new-look Fanga’uta Community Management Committee this morning raised issues on assistance that would help them serve their community members better. These were raised during the 2nd Fanga’uta CMC meeting for the year, held at the Ministry of MEIDECC’s main conference room at the OG Read More …
KOROR, Palau – July 5, 2019 – 9.10am (ISLAND TIMES): Changes to Palau’s National Marine Sanctuary – an area encompassing 500,000 square kilometers and roughly 80 percent of the country’s exclusive economic zone – will now allow fish exports in the domestic fishing zone. The law takes effect in 2020 and, although the ban on Read More …
Nuku’alofa – July 2, 2019: 11.05am (Enviro News/PIANGO): Tonga’s Emeline Siale Ilolahia has been appointed the new Executive Director of the Pacific Islands Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (PIANGO). Ms. Ilolahia was formerly Executive Director of the Civil Society Organisation Forum of Tonga (CSFOT) and a key player in partnering with the Department of Environment. A Read More …
Sigatoka, Fiji – June 26, 2019: 5pm (Enviro News) – Pacific Island countries should reform their Public Finance Management Systems (PFMS) for their own good and not just to meet requirements to access Climate Financing only, the Regional Climate and Disaster Risk Finance Forum in Sigatoka, Fiji heard this morning. Cook Islands’ Chief Executive Officer at Read More …
Sigatoka, Fiji – June 26, 2019: 4pm (Enviro News): Climate Change and climate financing discussions and planning must include the media, a regional climate finance and public management adviser told the media here in Sigatoka, Fiji this morning. Mr Aholotu Palu, who is part of the Climate Change Finance Readiness Project being implemented by the Read More …
Sigatoka, Fiji – June 25, 2019: 5.45pm (Enviro News): Climate Financing to the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) is quite low, in comparison to other countries around the world. Speaking at the Regional Climate Change Finance Meetings and Regional Media Training here at the Shangri-La’s Fijian Hotel in Sigatoka, Mr ‘Aholotu Palu, the former Acting Chief Read More …
2019 APIC Japan Journalism Fellows Announced Tokyo, Japan – June 20, 2019: 1.45pm (APIC/Enviro News): Tonga’s Department of Environment’s Communication and Information Officer Iliesa Tora is among four senior journalists from the Caribbean and Pacific and two students from Tokyo-area universities selected as APIC Japan Journalism Fellows for 2019. The Association for Promotion of International Read More …
Washington, USA – June 20, 2019: 11.10am (GEF): Twenty-seven Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have come together in a bid to manage and eliminate toxic chemicals and waste in some of the world’s most vulnerable ecosystems under a new initiative announced last week in Washington DC. Backed by US$61 million in funding from the Global Read More …
Bonn, Germany – June 19, 2019: 6pm (UNEP): Sunday, 23 June marks the 40th anniversary of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), also known as the “Bonn Convention” after the city in which it was signed. It is the only global treaty dealing with the conservation of migratory species and Read More …
