Press Releases

Memorandum between SPREP and Birdlife enhances collaboration to protect birds and biologically important sites

06 September 2023, Apia Samoa - The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and Birdlife International (BLI) continue to strengthen cooperation through a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), committing the organisations...

President Lai holds policy discussion at US East-West Center

TAIWAN, December 2 - President Lai holds policy discussion at US East-West Center While transiting in Hawaii before state visits to the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, and the Republic of Palau, President Lai Ching-te held a discussion...

Knowledge Sharing – unveiling remarkable achievements, valuable lessons, and opportunities for the Inform Project

The Inform Project Regional Meeting provided a platform to highlight notable achievements and valuable lessons learned throughout its implementation period. Held on 20 – 21 June, in Nadi, Suva, the meeting presented an array of opportunities that...

SPREP enhances partnerships for a resilient Blue Pacific

04 September 2023, Apia Samoa - The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) continues to strengthen partnerships for a resilient Blue Pacific through the first SPREP Partnership Dialogue taking place in Samoa, at the...

NMHS and NDMO meeting provides next steps for closer collaboration to build resilient Pacific

12 August 2023, Nadi, Fiji - The need to build new a structured engagement mechanism and pursue new approaches to strengthen collaboration between providers and users of climate information, is one of the outcomes of the joint meeting of the...

The grim reality of Loss and Damage in Fiji

18 July 2023, Apia Samoa - The negative impacts of climate change-induced Loss and Damage is already a lived reality for many Pacific countries. In Fiji, the impact is grim. In Vunidogola village on the island of Vanua Levu, more than 160...

Call for solidarity to strengthen Met services at Third Ministerial Meeting on Meteorology

18 August 2023, Nadi Fiji - Ministers attending the third Ministerial Meeting on Meteorology (PMMM-3) in Nadi, Fiji, have been urged to stand in solidarity to strengthen weather, climate, water, ocean and related development services in the...

Greening the 2023 International Va’a Federation World Distance Championship

04 August 2023, Apia Samoa - A partnership between the Government of Samoa, the Samoa Outrigger Canoe Association (SOCA) and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) to make the International Va’a Federation World...

PACRES scales up adaptation in the Pacific using Ecosystem-based solutions

1 August 2023, Nadi, Fiji. We live in a time where the Blue Pacific grapples with ways to respond to the mounting threats created by the changing climate. There is an urgent need for innovative and cost-effective solutions. Our Pacific people have...

Curtain falls on the final PACRES Steering Committee and Lessons Learned Meeting

4 August 2023, Nadi, Fiji. Following a week of comprehensive and informative sessions and dialogue, partner countries and delivery partners brought the fourth and final Steering Committee meeting and Lessons Learned workshop for the European Union...

Leaders from the Pacific Region make a clear statement that the conservation of our oceans is not optional

17 December 2022, Montreal, Canada - Much of the talk these past two weeks at the CBD COP15 has centred around developing states concerned that there will be an unfair burden placed upon them to maintain their biodiversity. But the Pacific side...

Pacific youth capacity strengthened at inaugural Loss and Damage dialogue

Youth representatives from across the Pacific have had the opportunity to learn firsthand about the issue of loss and damage from experts and experienced climate change negotiators during the inaugural Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS)...

PACRES Project Convenes Fourth Steering Committee Meeting in Fiji

31 July 2023, Nadi, Fiji. The Pacific Adaptation to Climate and Resilience Building (PACRES) project convened its fourth and final Project Steering Committee Meeting and Intra-ACP Lessons Learned in Climate Change and Disaster Resilience Workshop...

AOSIS offers waste management options for plastics treaty

04 June 2023, Paris France - The proposed legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, discussed at the second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-2) working to develop it, must...

President Lai meets 2025 Yushan Forum participants

TAIWAN, March 18 - Details 2025-03-18 President Lai meets Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs On the afternoon of March 18, President Lai Ching-te met with a delegation led by Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs. In remarks, President Lai said that Taiwan and...

President Lai meets Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs  

TAIWAN, March 18 - Details 2025-03-18 President Lai meets delegation led by Minister of Foreign Affairs Denzil Douglas of Saint Christopher and Nevis On the afternoon of March 18, President Lai Ching-te met with a delegation led by Minister of...

PACRES Countries reflect on their challenges and Lessons Learned

3 August 2023, Nadi, Fiji. Implementing countries for the European Union Intra-ACP GCCA+ Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change and Resilience Building (PACRES) project have spotlighted their challenges and recommendations for best practice at the...

Working together to build resilience across our Pacific

The Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change and Resilience Building (PACRES) project is scheduled to convene its fourth and final Project Steering Committee Meeting and the Intra-ACP Lessons Learned in Climate Change and Disaster Resilience Workshop...

Celebrating 30 years of SPREP in the Cook Islands

Reflecting upon our past to help build our future was a key message amplified at a special event commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) in the Cook Islands. The celebration...

‘Is that the world we want to bequeath our grandchildren?’ UN Ocean Envoy laments plastic crisis impact on Ocean

01 June 2023, Paris France - As the negotiations pick up speed at the second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee charged with producing an international legally binding instrument to control plastic pollution, including in the...