The Secretariat of the Pacific regional Environment Programme invites applications from suitably qualified individuals for the following vacant positions, to be based at SPREP headquarters in Apia, Samoa:
1) Director - Climate Change
2) Climate Change Adaptation adviser
Oceans mean the whole world. They provide us food. They offer shelter to many species that enable life to exist on earth. They protect us from the impacts of climate change. Unfortunately, we are exploiting them, pushing ocean ecosystems to their limits.
Protected Area managers face enormous challenges: a lack of resources, invasive species, poaching, and development to name to just a few. Now along comes a threat that is bigger than all the previous ones and even interacts with most of them.
MPAs, which include marine reserves, sanctuaries, parks, and no-take zones, are areas designated to protect marine species and habitats from both global and local threats...a new global study demonstrates that widespread lack of personnel and funds are preventing MPAs from reaching their full pot
Each part of the world faces specific vulnerabilities to climate change and has different opportunities to mitigate the effects and build resilience in the 21st century. With the ratification of the Paris Agreement, many countries have acceded to act in combatting climate change.
The Ministry of Forestry has developed a program that will strengthen sustainable forest management and conservation for those communities affected by disaster and climate change.
