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The increased demand for high quality products in export markets, coupled with Pacific Island Countries (PICs) national desire to protect the environment, biodiversity and family farming structures, lead to assume that organic agriculture could offer good prospects for PICs development. Besides market opportunities, organic agriculture could increase PICs food self-reliance and thus, contribute to reducing the alarming trend of dependency on food imports, as well as improving nutrition.

REVIEW OF REGIONAL E-WASTE RECYCLING Including a Model Product Stewardship Approach for Pacific Island Nations 2013

This guide assists PICs to build on existing laws and institutions to protect their environments, economies and societies from plastic pollution, improve waste management and recovery, and find alternative and practical solutions to avoidable plastic use.

The global seafloor geomorphic features map has been created through collaboration between Geoscience Australia, GRID-Arendal and Conservation International.

A presentation on what's in and what's not; using the new global seafloor geomorphic map to examine the representatives of global marine protected areas

A scientific paper published in Marine Geology, that gives a detailed description of the global geomorphic features map

Direct link to multilateral environmental agreements information on the InforMEA portal related to the Pacific region.

A series of free online courses related to different environmental thematic areas:
1. Biological Diversity
2. Chemicals and Waste
3. Climate, Atmosphere and Land
4. International Environmental Governance
5. Oceans and Freshwater

Users can freely participate on any course and receive certificates upon completion of each course syllabus.

Watch this YouTube video to learn more about the InforMEA platform.

These guidelines detail the process, timeline, and steps taken to complete a State of Environment Report.

This is a template that can be used when creating a State of Environment report, and sections can be added or adapted to fit a country’s needs.

This new set of 60 indicator icons can be used in a State of Environment report to indicate the status of environmental issues and progress in a country.

SPREPs recommended template for individual indicators in national SoE reports. The full SoE template will be updated in the coming months.