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Tongatapu 5 Youth Council want to tackle water and coastal issues to ensure a better future for Hihifo communities, after electing a working committee last week.

The activity is part of the Integrated Sustainable Land and Coastal Management (ISLCM) project, which aims to implement sustainable and integrated management of forest, land and marine resources...The newly established community nurseries are part of the Livelihood Recovery Program in communities

Coastal ecosystems are very important.They provide a habitat for many plant and animal species, capture CO2, and protect the land from storm waves. Coastal ecosystems are in rapid decline around the world. Restoring them is very expensive and is often unsuccessful.

Many island nations, including the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, are facing an existential threat as a result of a rising sea level induced by global climate change.

The Pacific Community’s Global Climate Change Alliance: Pacific Small Island States (GCCA: PSIS),  funded by the European Union (EU) was the proud recipient of the 2019 Energy Globe Award, recognised for its outstanding work and contribution towards advancing peer to peer learning in climate

Tuvalu has received the green light this week to spend the international aid money, not just on coastal protection, but also on on building more land out of the lagoon. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

In Hawai‘i, reefs provide more than $836 million in flood protection benefits to people, property and jobs every year—more than every other state and territory in the nation, according to a new report released by the U.S.

The government's report on the state of the environment estimates the economic losses associated with soil erosion and landslides is at least $250 to $300 million a year. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

The University of Hawai‘i Sea Grant College Program’s educational television series Voice of the Sea has received two 2018 Telly Awards for its coverage of sea-level rise and coastal erosion in Hawai‘i.

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The International Partnership for Blue Carbon (IPBC) – together with the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat-Office of the Pacific Ocean Commissioner (PIFS-OPOC) – is hosting two blue carbon events at the PIFS campus in Suva, Fiji, this September: the IPBC’s third annual meeting and a Pacific blue