Hancock A., Lal, Nilima 2022. The relevance of statistical classifications for Pacific Island countries and territories. Noumea, New Caledonia : Pacific Community. 21 p.
Anon. 2022. Poverty, food consumption, labour, and houseold income and expenditure in the Marshall Islands: a compendium of analyses of the 2019/20 household income and expenditure survey. Noumea, New Caledonia: Pacific Community. 354 p.
SPREP wishes to call for tenders from qualified and experienced consultants who can offer their services develop Climate Change Functionality on Federated States of Micronesia’s INFORM Portal and to be completed by 30 June 2023.
Functionality of the Climate Change Portal to be implemented on the INFORM portal
This guide introduces environmental indicators and provides an overview of SPREP’S core indicators for Pacific island countries. In 2012, the SPREP members approved the development of a set of standardised indicators for use by member countries at the SPREP meeting. Through the Inform project, SPREP programmes then developed a set of 34 indicators that was endorsed by members at the 2018 SPREP meeting. This document explains the development and use of environmental indicators in Part 1 and provides a summary of each of the 34 ‘core’ indicators in Part 2.
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The focus of several past tropical cyclone (TC) studies in the Southwest Pacific (SWP) had been primarily at the regional scale, with little or no attention to the local-scale TC activity (i.e., at the country level). With the growing coastal population in the South Pacific Island countries, as well as increasing threats from and exposure to climate extremes mostly affecting vulnerable communities, examining TC-related risks at the country level is more imperative now than before.
Tropical cyclones (TCs) as a natural hazard pose a major threat and risk to the human population globally. This threat is expected to increase in a warming climate as the frequency of severe TCs is expected to increase. In this study, the influence of different monthly sea surface temperature (SST) patterns on the locations and frequency of tropical cyclone genesis (TCG) in the Southwest Pacific (SWP) region is investigated. Using principal component analysis and k-means clustering of monthly SST between 1970 and 2019, nine statistically different SST patterns are identified.
Fifty-second meeting of the Committee of Representatives of Governments and Administrations (23-24 November 2022, Port Vila, Vanuatu) and twelfth Conference of the Pacific community (25 November 2022, Port Vila, Vanuatu): administrative note. Noumea, New Caledonia: Pacific Community. 3 p.