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Updated on June 9, 2023
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Can Network Analysis Strengthen Information Sharing in the Pacific? Pacific RISA recently launched a multi-year social network analysis project to examine how climate information spreads across different sectors and countries in the Pacific Islands region. Using the December… Read More
Updated on June 9, 2023
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Severe Drought Affects the Northern Atolls of the Republic of the Marshall Islands A persistent drought in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) has reached a severe level, affecting 8,000 to 10,000 people of the northern atolls…. Read More
Updated on June 9, 2023
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“Does more need to be done about climate change in Hawai‘i?” Dr. John Marra, Regional Climate Services Director for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shared his perspectives in response to this central question in a video interview… Read More
Updated on June 9, 2023
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Waves of Change: climate change talk story series opens The University of Hawai‘i Center for Pacific Islands Studies will host a series of seminars and films to prompt discussion about climate change in Hawai‘i and other Pacific Islands,… Read More
Updated on June 9, 2023
by Laura Brewington
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Pacific regional case studies are online Climate Change and Pacific Islands: Indicators and Impacts, the report of the Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment (PIRCA), is currently in publication, expected to be released late Fall 2012. As part of… Read More
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Press Release: Nature Conservation (reprinted with permission) 9/1/2010 A new draft three-year action plan has been developed outlining activities, responsibilities and targets that seek to promote and strengthen the wise… Read More
EarthSky interviewed Melissa Finucane about perceptions of environmental risks among Pacific Islanders. Finucane described the importance of a partnership approach to risk management. Click here to listen to the interview.
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Information Sharing in the Pacific
Updated on June 9, 2023 by pacrisa
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Can Network Analysis Strengthen Information Sharing in the Pacific? Pacific RISA recently launched a multi-year social network analysis project to examine how climate information spreads across different sectors and countries in the Pacific Islands region. Using the December… Read More
Category: General, Media, News Tags: communities, Indigenous knowledge, Pacific Islands, social networks
Drought in the RMI
Updated on June 9, 2023 by pacrisa
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Severe Drought Affects the Northern Atolls of the Republic of the Marshall Islands A persistent drought in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) has reached a severe level, affecting 8,000 to 10,000 people of the northern atolls…. Read More
Category: General, News Tags: communities, drought, Freshwater resources, Marshall Islands
Climate Change in Hawai‘i
Updated on June 9, 2023 by pacrisa
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“Does more need to be done about climate change in Hawai‘i?” Dr. John Marra, Regional Climate Services Director for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shared his perspectives in response to this central question in a video interview… Read More
Category: General, News Tags: Climate Services, communities, Hawaii, ocean ecosystems, Pacific RISA, PIRCA, risk management
Waves of Change
Updated on June 9, 2023 by pacrisa
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Waves of Change: climate change talk story series opens The University of Hawai‘i Center for Pacific Islands Studies will host a series of seminars and films to prompt discussion about climate change in Hawai‘i and other Pacific Islands,… Read More
Category: Featured News, General, News Tags: communities, French Polynesia, Hawaii, Indigenous knowledge, South Pacific, Western Samoa
Pacific regional case studies now online
Updated on June 9, 2023 by Laura Brewington
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Pacific regional case studies are online Climate Change and Pacific Islands: Indicators and Impacts, the report of the Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment (PIRCA), is currently in publication, expected to be released late Fall 2012. As part of… Read More
Category: General, News Tags: assessments, Climate adaptation, communities, Indigenous knowledge, PIRCA
New Regional Plan to Conserve Pacific Wetlands
Updated on June 9, 2023 by Laura Brewington
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Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Press Release: Nature Conservation (reprinted with permission) 9/1/2010 A new draft three-year action plan has been developed outlining activities, responsibilities and targets that seek to promote and strengthen the wise… Read More
Category: Featured News, General, News Tags: communities, conservation, Indigenous knowledge, New Caledonia
Perception of Environmental Risks among Pacific Islanders
Updated on June 9, 2023 by Laura Brewington
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EarthSky interviewed Melissa Finucane about perceptions of environmental risks among Pacific Islanders. Finucane described the importance of a partnership approach to risk management. Click here to listen to the interview.
Category: General, News Tags: climate change, communities, Hawaii, Indigenous knowledge, Pacific Islands, risk management
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