Digital Earth Pacific: The Republich of the Marshall Islands
Pioneering digital initiative empowers Pacific islands to tackle climate disasters
Originally published on IPS website.
Our Ocean 2024 Conference
9TH OUR OCEAN CONFERENCE GREECE 2024
The ocean plays a key role in human existence; it is essential for our survival and prosperity. It provides food, regulates our climate, and generates most of the oxygen we breathe. It also serves much of the…
European Union, OACPS, and SPC strengthen commitment to disaster resilience in Pacific islands
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John’s voice wavers, and his eyes tear up.
“Mum gave birth to me in 1964, just 5 meters away from the ocean. I think my love for the ocean began in my mother’s womb.”
His name is John Aini, from Lavongai, a small coastal community in New Ireland Province…
Pacific disaster and emergency managers rally commitment towards resilience building
Managers and stakeholders from the disaster and emergency management sectors in 15 Pacific Island countries convened in Nadi, Fiji, to review progress, obstacles, and prospects in regional cooperation to enhance disaster preparedness and response.
Pacific Regional Disaster and Emergency Managers Meeting 2024
Disaster Managers and Emergency Service Managers are core constituents of three SPC projects : Pacific Islands' Emergency Management Alliance (PIEMA); Building Safety and Resilience in the Pacific II (BSRP II); and the Pacific Humanitarian Warehousing…
Educators trained to offer resilience qualifications in the Pacific
As discussions on resilience and climate change are growing amongst different sectors and platforms in the Pacific, formalising practices and creating career pathways through the newly developed Resilience Qualifications has scaled up the need to offer…