PCCOS, a new centre of excellence in Ocean Science
Navigating their way through the ocean channel using SPC Ocean Science information
The Pacific Community Centre of Ocean Science, known as PCCOS, is a new centre of excellence in Ocean Science that draws together all of the technical and scientific work…
Climate Change and Disaster Risk Finance: ISACC project strengthens institutions in Tuvalu to access and manage climate finance
This story was developed as part of a media masterclass where journalists were invited to attend and cover the Climate and Disaster Risk Finance Meeting over the course of two days. SPC’s Institutional Strengthening for Pacific Island countries to…
Sharing Pacific Perspectives on Climate Change & Disaster Risk Finance
Climate change and disaster risk finance is crucial to addressing climate change, the greatest single threat to the livelihoods, security and well-being of the Pacific. As such, a gathering on climate change and disaster risk finance opened today…
Pacific Earth Observation Coordination Meeting Report
2019. Pacific Earth Observation Coordination Meeting Report. Suva, Fiji. Pacific Community, (SPC). 15 p.
Status of ocean failing, but there is time to save it
What an ocean scientist looks like
Imagine a scientist.
Go ahead, humor me. What does your scientist look like?
Lab coat? Check. Test tube? Check. Snorkle?...... in the Pacific Islands, you better believe it.
Now, return to that image of a scientist. Did you imagine a man or a woman?…
Kiribati Communities Reap Benefits of improved Water and Sanitation infrastructure
KIRIWATSAN Phase 2 - Kiribati Water and Sanitation in the Outer Islands
A partnership funded by the European Union
Over 9,000 people in 35 villages across the 16 outer islands of the Gilbert group in Kiribati now have improved access to water and…
Working together for our Ocean
Across the Pacific Islands, the ocean separates, connects, threatens and sustains us. The ocean has a tremendous impact upon the lives of every islander, but we are only gradually beginning to understand the enormous impact we are having on it. Ensuring…
Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction- Statement by Dr. A. Aumua, SPC Deputy Director-General
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Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction
Statement by Dr Audrey Aumua
Deputy Director General, The Pacific Community (SPC)
Safer Seas, Cleaner Oceans: The PIDSS program
For centuries, pacific people have travelled across the vast oceans using traditional canoes and other means of transportation. Today hundreds of thousands of people are dependent on sea and shipping services for business, inter-island travel or just the…