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In line with the requirements of the Public Finance Management Act 2001, it is a great pleasure for me to present the Strategy for the Development of Samoa (SDS), 2008–2012: Ensuring Sustainable Economic and Social Progress. SDS presents Samoa’s development vision, its medium-term national development goals, and the strategies that will be implemented during the four financial years 2008/09–2011/12 to achieve these goals.

Global biodiversity loss is rapid and ongoing. International efforts are redoubling as the international community realizes the importance of biodiversity in maintaining our life support systems. In 2004 Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity committed to have effectively conserved at least 10% of marine and coastal ecological regions globally by 2010. Micronesian leaders responded to this commitment, and have taken this one step further by committing to effectively conserve 30% of nearshore marine and 20% of terrestrial resources by the year 2020.

The reefs of Guam have been spared from severe and widespread coral mortality associated with large-scale bleaching events, but observations in 2006 and 2007 suggest that bleaching events in Guam’s reefs may become more frequent and severe in the coming decades. The first large-scale bleaching event reported in Guam since the establishment of the University of Guam Marine Laboratory (UOGML) in 1970, was an event in 1994, with another event reported in 1996 (Paulay and Benayahu, 1999).

Since the 1997-1998 El Niño event, which was described by Golbuu et al. (2005), Palau has not experienced any major bleaching events. However, there have been reports of localized bleaching in different parts of Palau that are believed to be related to human impacts.

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Climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction (DRR) have similar aims and mutual benefits.However, to date the climate change and disaster risk management communities1 have operated largely in isolation from each other – for a number of reasons. This situation must change as a matter of urgency.Adaptation and DRR policy makers, experts and practitioners must communicate and collaborate with each other effectively to ensure a comprehensive risk management approach to development at local, national and international levels of government

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Tuvalu, a small island nation in the Pacific, has in recent years lost about one metre of land around the circumference of its largest atoll due to changes in storm conditions and rising sea levels. Tuvalu is one of the world’s lowest lying countries, with its highest point standing a mere four and a half metres above sea level. Half of Tuvalu’s population of 11,000 people live just three metres above sea level

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Cooperation among development partners is a key driver of development effectiveness to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The World Bank has recognized the importance of linking knowledge and expertise across the globe and identified the support and promotion of South-South and South-North partnerships and dialogue as a strategic priority within its knowledge and learning agenda. Over the past years, a number of initiatives have pioneered South-South cooperation.

The American Samoa Islands and its surrounding waters contain historical, cultural, and natural resources that must be protected, managed, controlled and preserved for the benefit of all people of the Territory and future generations. The protection of these traditionally valuable resources will enhance and increase fish abundance and size for future catch.

Fondee en 1948, l’Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature rassemble des Etats, des organismes gouvernementaux et un large eventail d’organisations non gouvernementales au sein d’une alliance unique : plus de 1000 membres dans 147 pays. L’UICN regroupe egalement un reseau de plus de 10 000 experts benevoles qui apportent leurs connaissances a travers six commissions specialisees. Le secretariat de l’UICN est compose d’un siege mondial en Suisse et de 62 bureaux regionaux et nationaux.

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CEPA Environment Permit Application Form to Discharge Waste Schedule and Additional Information Schedule 2.

Papua New Guinea Final National Action Plan to the ten year (2008-2018) UNCCD Strategy.

Agriculture s the foundation of and heart of the rural PNG economy with over 85% of its 7.5 million people depending on the sector for their livelihoods. This sector is faced with so many challenges including climate change, lack of access to markets and so on. The access to suitable and timely information and knowledge is also seen to be one of the key drawbacks of agriculture advancement in PNG.

This report reviews the past and present status of natural resources and their uses and indicates what trends are occurring to determine future resource uses and impacts of uses. It suggests possible priorities for incorporation into the FSM
Nationwide Environmental Management Strategy Optimal socio-economic development in the Federated States of Micronesia requires a long-term, inter-generational perspective on management of the limited but valuable natural
resources and the environment.

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This Review of Environmental Law in the Kingdom of Tonga has been implemented as an important component of the Regional Environment Technical Assistance (RETA) Project. The RETA project has been developed to address environmental issues in a
number of Pacific countries. It has been funded by the Asian Development Bank and carried out with technical assistance from IUCN - the World Conservation Union. The RETA project is an important regional initiative, which reflects the need for careful management of the Pacific environment.

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This workshop on environmental law was the first of its kind in the Pacific region It was a natural follow-on from the work that has been carried out by the Regional Environment Technical Assistance Project and the National Environmental Management Strategy Project, both of which are producing National Environmental Management Strategies and Legal Reviews of a dozen countries in the Pacific. The workshop also followed hard

All South Pacific countries have a need to monitor the weather conditions within the region especially during the cyclone season. An important tool to assist in monitoring and
forecasting weather conditions is the weather
satellite image.

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Call Number: 551.6354 SCH [EL]

ISBN/ISSN: 982-04-0112-7

Physical Description: iv, 16 p. ; 29 cm

Traditional natural-resource management systems of the indigenous, communities of the Pacific islands, based on communal-property concepts, continue to function in the face of many changes in the circumstances in which they operate. All have been weakened by changes accompanying economic development - yet they have adapted, and persist.

The National Environment Pollution Awareness Workshop conducted at Funafuti in Tuvalu on 11 - 13 May 1993 came about as a result of the assembling of environmental priorities within countries of the South Pacific under the National Environment Management Strategy (NEMS) Programme. The identification of the lack of proper waste management and pollution control measures were regarded as priorities that had to be addressed.

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Call Number: 363.73 NAT [EL],341.762

ISBN/ISSN: 982-04-0005-8

The environmental needs of small island developing countries were given special attention at the United Nations Conference on
Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992 as was the need to determine "how the new global framework for sustainable development can be put into action in island countries" (Miles, 1993, p. 34). The environment is a vital resource for all island developing states. Its special

Human needs and desires demand economic development.
Natural resources provide the physical basis for that
development. But ever more evidence accumulates to show that
human actions, whether through carelessness or through the
necessity for development, are causing environmental
degradation and resource depletion. This deterioration makes
continued economic development more difficult both because
damage to resources makes them less productive of economic
goods and because funding and human effort must be diverted