RESCCUE Project - Theme 1: Efate Land Management Area (ELMA)
RESCCUE supported a rapid biodiversity assessment in the Efate Land Management Area (ELMA) in Vanuatu to help the Government of Vanuatu, SHEFA Province and local communities protect this area which provides key ecosystem services.
RESCCUE Final Workshop
Final RESCCUE workshop. Lesson learned about the project to be discussed.
The Blue Economy for the Blue Planet
NEW CALEDONIA, Nov 20 2018 (IPS) - We live on a “blue planet” where water covers around 75 percent of the Earth’s surface. Without water we would simply not survive as a species.
In New Caledonia, when the house is on fire, traditional leaders can help
Seven hundred years. That’s the time the Mont-Dore forest in New Caledonia will need to regenerate, after a bush fire destroyed most of it last year.
European Union renews commitment to Pacific climate and biodiversity in overseas territories
Tomas Mateo Goyet (Team Leader, overseas territories at the EU Delegation for the Pacific) and Cameron Diver (SPC Deputy Director-General) finalizing the SPC-SPREP codelagation agreement for the 11th EDF.
France, through the French Development Agency, and the Pacific Community, together commit for climate and the environmental protection in the Pacific
The Pacific Community and the French Development Agency (AFD) signed today at SPC Headquarters an agreement to renew for 2 years a position of Director, Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability Director within SPC.
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SPC as a key partner for biodiversity and climate change in the Pacific
AFD, the French agency for international development, together with Australia, the European Union and New Zealand launched the Pacific intitiative last month in New York as a side eent to the One Planet Summit. This 21m-euro fund is focused on…
COP24: Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
COP24 is the informal name for the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
The UNFCCC is a “Rio Convention”, one of three adopted at the “Rio Earth Summit” in 1992. The UNFCCC entered into…