This report assesses the overall state of conservation in the Pacific Islands region of Oceania, that is, the 21 countries and territories covered by SPREP plus Pitcairn Island. The report uses an analysis of 16 indicators chosen in consultation with SPREP and based on the Global Biodiversity Indicator project (http://www.bipindicators.net).
Green Turtle Nesting Sites and Sea Turtle Legislation throughout Oceania
Cyclone damage - Oceania
2020. Pacific Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose 2020. Noumea, New Caledonia: Pacific Community. 195 p.
Anon. 2013. Pacific Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose 2012. Noumea, New Caledonia: Secretariat of the Pacific Community. 69 p.
Pacific Strong: Strategic Roadmap for Emergency Management 2021-2025: summary document. Suva, Fiji: Pacific Community (SPC). 11 p.
Regional Strategic Roadmap for Emergency Management 2021-2025. Suva, Fiji: Pacific Community (SPC). 25 p.
Fertility trends in Pacific island countries and territories. Noumea, New Caledonia: Pacific Community. 105 p.
Anon. 2015. Mortality trends in Pacific island states. Noumea, New Caledonia: Secretariat of the Pacific Community. 90 p.
I. Lal, Nilima II. Title III. Secretariat of the Pacific Community. 2014. Pacific Standard Industrial Classification of all economic activities 2014. Noumea, New Caledonia: Secretariat of the Pacific Community. 250 p.
Anon. 2018. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Pacific Booklet 2018. Noumea, New Caledonia: Pacific Community (SPC). 44 p.
This chapter provides a brief description of Papua New Guinea, its past and present climate as well as projections for the future. The climate observation network and the availability of atmospheric and oceanic data records are outlined. The annual mean climate, seasonal cycles and the influences of large-scale climate features such as the West Pacific Monsoon and patterns of climate variability (e.g. the El Niño‑Southern Oscillation) are analysed and discussed.
Conservation Status of Marine Biodiversity in Oceania.
Climate change and migration
The Regional Seas programme of UNEP commenced in 1974 and since that time
considerable advances have been made in the development of regional action plans and
conventions for the protection of the marine and coastal areas of some eleven regions world-
wide. Following these developments UNEP has encouraged inter-regional co-operation in
addressing various issues of environmental concern through the organisation of international
meetings and inter-regional symposia. This volume contains the record of one such symposium,
"The impacts of the 1997-1998 El Nino are
fresh in our minds, and the latest reports from
the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) confirm tvhat all of you
already know changes in climate matter to
individuals, communities, businesses and
governments who call islands home. Your
valuable natural resources, traditional ways of
life, critical economic sectors, community support
infrastructure, atid, to a great extent, your
future, depend on developing an effective
On ne connait qu'une seule espece de mysticete, la
baleine de Bryde (dont il existe deux formes ou sous-
especes), qui sejourne toute l'annee dans la region du
PROE. Trois ou quatre autres especes - l'une ou les
deux especes de petit rorqual de l'hemisphere sud, la
baleine a bosse et la baleine bleue - migrent regulierement merit en saison dans certaines parties au moins de
la zone d'action du PROE. Le rorqual boreal et le rorqual commun ont egalement ete signals, mais ne sont
apparemment pas frequents (voir Rice, 1979, 321 ;
The area of concern for this Regional Wetlands Action Plan (RWAP) is the Pacific islands region, extending from Palau and the Northern Mariana Islands in the north-west to French
Polynesia and Pitcaim in the south-east, encompassing 22 Pacific island countries and territories including large countries such as Papua New Guinea (PNG). It equates to the region of operation
of the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP).
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Given the unique socio-cultural and ecological conditions of the
Pacific Islands, it is essential that the baseline studies and
monitoring conducted as part of EXA should be undertaken by
specialists from the region itself. This will have the added
advantage of exposing local specialists from a variety of
disciplines to the techniques of EIA, thus building up a regional capability in EIA over the period of the programme.
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Latent sea-level rise is defined here as the sea-level rise ultimately likely to occur due to emissions of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere, i.e. if all anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases were to cease at a particular time, various global systems would continue to change in response to
the gases remaining in the atmosphere until equilibrium was reached. Those systems include the atmosphere: the cryosphere, comprising snowfields,tundra soils, glaciers and ice-caps: the biosphere,including both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems: