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The U.S. Embassy is pleased to announce the 2026-2027 Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program for citizens of Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, and Tuvalu . The ten-month fellowship consists of academic coursework and an internship in a relevant professional organization.

Green Climate Fund (GFC) executive director Mafalda Duarte has praised the country for preservng its forests and "doing good for the world"  The fund's board spent several days in Port Moresby recently for its 42nd meeting and concluded with a trip to the Variarata Park on Friday.

SPREP wishes to call for tenders from a qualified service provider to conduct Honiara City urban beautification and greening through tree planting in Honiara City including the installation of mini-infrastructure.

This job exists to:

• Lead the development of and implementation of the Weather Ready Pacific work program related to training and capacity development.

Pacific countries manage over 10% of the world’s Ocean as Large Ocean States, and contribute less than 1.3% to global plastic pollution.  Despite this measly contribution to plastic pollution, Pacific communities remain on the forefront of impacts of the worsening plastic pollution crisis.

In an ancient quarry on top of a volcano on a remote Pacific island, half-finished figures hewn into the rock ignore Maria Tuki as she walks by.The rugged faces of these figures sport world-famous furrowed brows and sloping noses.

From rising seas to disappearing forests, the world’s small island developing states are facing some of the fiercest fallout from the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste.  

It’s been two weeks since the curtains fell on the third UN Ocean Conference. At this largest ever ocean summit, the Pacific voice echoed as a collective, calling for more global ocean accountability, and offering transformational national and regional voluntary commitments.

 A national project to strengthen management efforts for the Palau National Marine Sanctuary (PNMS) has successfully concluded after four years and $1.8 million in support of fisheries management, enforcement & surveillance, and research and outreach efforts.

Smack-bang in the center of the Pacific Ocean – slightly north of the equator and about 1,800 kilometers south of Hawaii – lies uninhabited Palmyra Atoll, a U.S. National Wildlife Refuge managed by The Nature Conservancy (TNC).