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 Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

marine material spillage international oceans

 Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

Regional data on marine pollution.

 Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

Marine pollution originating from purse seine and longline fishing vessel operations in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean, 2003-2015.

The data was collected by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community's Observer Programme

 Vanuatu Department of Environmental Protection and Conservation

This dataset reports solid waste abundance and composition data from households and commercial activities expressed in number of items, weight or volume for Vanuatu. It reports the results of interviews done when solid waste samples were collected to gather metadata about household occupants social and behavioural metadata, including the fate of solid waste not collected through the official waste management service.

 Solomon Islands Ministry of Environment,  Climate Change,  Disaster Management and Meteorology

Map of marine pollution incidents by fisheries observer. Resolution 1 degree grid. Resource Map developed by MACBIO for bioregions workshop in Feb 2018.

 Solomon Islands Environment and Conservation Division

Air Pollution in Asia and the Pacific: Science-based Solutions aims to support efforts to reduce air pollution in Asia and the Pacific by proposing cost-effective options suited to the countries of the region.

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 Solomon Islands Ministry of Environment,  Climate Change,  Disaster Management and Meteorology

This dataset contains Solid Waste Audit - a composition of data from households and commercial activities expressed in number of items, weight or volume. It also reports the results of interviews done when solid waste samples were collected to gather metadata about household occupants social and behavioural metadata, including the fate of solid waste not collected through the official waste management service.

 Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

SPREP is leading the charge to make the Pacific Games in July in Samoa go plastic free in an awareness and outreach initiative aptly called Greening of the Games.

This dataset holds a draft report and a raw baseline data collected from a clean-up at Mulinu'u executed on the 11th May 2019 by the the Team Samoa Va'a, to contextualize solutions and interventions to address marine litter and plastic pollution.

Direct links to chart visualizations generated by the Inform portal based on data collection are also included.

 Department of Environment,  Tonga

Marine pollution in the Pacific. Regional data

 Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

Pacific environments require global commitments to sustainable consumption and production because waste and pollution produced elsewhere is transported into and impacts the Pacific region. This factsheet highlights briefly the consumption and production practices that affect Pacific environments and species directly and indirectly

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

Regional data on marine pollution: observer pollution events. Marine pollution from ships and waste incidents per country in the Pacific region. Waste composition includes: general garbage, plastics, old fishing gears, metals, waste oils, chemicals.

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

Cleaner Pacific

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

Policies for plastic bag ban in Papua New Guinea

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

Minamata Projects

 Nauru Department of Commerce,  Industry and Environment

Based on literature review and meetings with community residents, acute health effects from ambient particulates on airway, mucosa, and skin of residents, especially neonates and infants, are strongly suspected. Previous studies on environmental impacts of phosphate mining also indicate a potential contamination with radionuclide including radon and radon progeny and effects on cancer developments including lung cancer, leukemia. In addition to these, cadmium contamination of air, water, and biota should also be included as a potential threat to Aiwo community and nearby districts.

 Nauru Department of Commerce,  Industry and Environment

Marine pollution originating from purse seine and longline fishing vessel operations in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean, 2003-2015.

 Climate Change Directorate

Regional data on marine pollution. Observe pollution events.

 NEPC - National Environment Protection Council,  Palau

National Solid Waste Management Strategy: The Roadmap towards a Clean and Safe Palau. 2017 to 2026

 NEPC - National Environment Protection Council,  Palau

Palau Environmental Quality Protection Board (EQPB) Marine and Freshwater Quality Regulations, newly revised and adopted in 2020.

 PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority

PNG is signatory to number of Multilateral Environmental Agreements and UN Conventions, in which CEPA administers 14 of them. The treaties focuses mainly on biodiversity, climate, wastes& pollution.