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Ottawa one step closer to a plastics treaty
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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May 7, 2024
01 May 2023, Ottawa Canada - Pacific delegates are leaving Ottawa Canada exhausted but reasonably satisfied with an advanced draft text of an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment. They...
Republic of Palau: IMF Staff Completes 2016 Article IV Mission
International Monetary Fund
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June 1, 2016
Press Release No. 16/258 May 31, 2016 End-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do not...
News Release – DOH Reports Sixth Travel-Related Dengue Virus Case of 2025
Governor of State of Hawaii
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April 11, 2025
STATE OF HAWAIʻI KA MOKU ʻĀINA O HAWAIʻI DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH KA ʻOIHANA OLAKINO JOSH GREEN, M.D. GOVERNOR KE KIA‘ĀINA KENNETH S. FINK, M.D., MGA, MPH DIRECTOR KA LUNA HO‘OKELE DOH REPORTS SIXTH TRAVEL-RELATED DENGUE VIRUS CASE OF 2025 FOR...
Kiribati’s lead-acid battery recycling system highlighted at Clean Pacific Roundtable
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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August 7, 2024
7 August 2024, Funafuti Tuvalu - A commercial operation to recycle used lead-acid batteries in Kiribati, where 7000 tonnes of toxic waste has been removed from the island over a twenty year period, could be replicated and used in other Pacific...
How the Kingdom of Tonga is dealing with the scourge of End of Life Vehicles
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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August 7, 2024
6 August 2024, Funafuti Tuvalu - The mountain of End of Life Vehicles (ELVs) is an imposing challenge for the Kingdom of Tonga. Statistics show that the main island of Tongatapu has accumulated more than 30,000 ELVs over the years – and with more...
DOH REPORTS SIXTH TRAVEL-RELATED DENGUE VIRUS CASE OF 2025
Hawaii State Department of Health
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April 11, 2025
Posted on Apr 11, 2025 in Newsroom HONOLULU — The Hawai‘i Department of Health (DOH) has confirmed a new travel-related case of dengue virus on Oʻahu, bringing the total number of dengue cases to six in the state in 2025 (one on Maui, five on...
News Release – DOH Reports Sixth Travel-Related Dengue Virus Case of 2025
Governor of State of Hawaii
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April 11, 2025
STATE OF HAWAIʻI KA MOKU ʻĀINA O HAWAIʻI DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH KA ʻOIHANA OLAKINO JOSH GREEN, M.D. GOVERNOR KE KIA‘ĀINA KENNETH S. FINK, M.D., MGA, MPH DIRECTOR KA LUNA HO‘OKELE DOH REPORTS SIXTH TRAVEL-RELATED DENGUE VIRUS CASE OF 2025 FOR...
Why the INC process matters to the Kingdom of Tonga and Solomon Islands
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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February 14, 2024
14 February 2024, Auckland NZ - To say the impact of plastic pollution on the Kingdom of Tonga is a problem would be stating it quite mildly. Like most Pacific islands who are at the forefront of the impacts of the escalating plastic pollution...
Voices of Pacific Women: Kathleen Taituave Afereti
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 27, 2024
Negotiating a Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution including in the Marine Environment 26 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - With a broad range of UN negotiations experience under her belt, Kathleen Taituave of Samoa, is a young negotiator...
Samoa, as Chair of AOSIS, flags special circumstances of SIDS at plastic treaty talks
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 25, 2024
24 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - As officials and negotiators sift through the revised draft text of the international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)...
Pacific Voice the “moral compass” in global push for plastics treaty
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 21, 2024
19 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - Three days from the opening of the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment...
Pacific delegates advocate for a key regional aspiration to be included in the plastic treaty text
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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May 1, 2024
In the final hours of the fourth round of negotiations on the revised zero draft of the global plastics treaty, Pacific delegates remain steadfast in their resolve to have a key regional aspiration on the sustainable production of primary plastic...
Pacific SIDS calls for global solidarity in addressing the plastics crisis, asks for high ambition
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 24, 2024
Vanuatu, speaking on behalf of the 14 Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS), has made a call for the international community to work together in fulfilling its mandate to have an international legally binding instrument on plastic...
DWP Privé All Set to Welcome the World’s Leading Luxury Wedding Planners, Suppliers & Partners in Colombo, April 9
EIN Presswire
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April 7, 2025
Top Destination Wedding Industry Trends Revealed to Inspire, Educate, and Elevate Service Excellence DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, April 7, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Destination weddings and luxury celebration planners along with some of the...
Bridge to Busan Declaration open for signing at Plastics Treaty talks
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 30, 2024
29 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - Today at INC4 over two dozen countries have signed on to the Bridge to Busan Declaration. Launched at the Plastics Treaty negotiations, it invigorates the call for sustainable production levels of primary plastic...
Empowering Pacific negotiators in plastics treaty negotiations
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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February 12, 2024
12 February 2024, Auckland NZ - The road for Pacific countries to the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment...
Trusted Science must ground plastics treaty negotiations - Scientists Coalition
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 29, 2024
28 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - Scientific evidence shows that plastics and associated chemicals, including some bio-based plastics, are destabilising the biosphere, harming the natural environment and living organisms including humans, and...
Pacific adds voice as attention turns to proposed intersession work to advance plastics treaty development
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 30, 2024
28 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - As the clock ticks towards the final hours of the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine...
Pacific negotiators feel the pressure as INC ramps up work to meet deadline
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 28, 2024
28 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - Delegates from 14 Pacific countries advocating their national and regional priorities at the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4) to develop an international legally binding...
Voices of Pacific Women: Marjorie Wells
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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April 30, 2024
Negotiating a Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution including in the Marine Environment 29 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - Stepping into deep shoes at the Plastics Treaty now underway, this Pacific Islands women negotiator is showing she can...