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Pacific Conservation Database

Advancing Environmental Law Reform, Implementation and Action in the Pacific

PIRT Member organisations

International Union for the Conservation of Nature - Oceania Regional Office (IUCN-ORO), Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)

Other partner organisations

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Fiji Environmental Law Association
Solomon Islands Environmental Law Association (SIELA)
Vanuatu Environmental Law Association (VELA)
Pacific Network for Environmental Law (PacNEL)
Environmental Defenders Office (EDO)

Countries of implementation

Regional, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu

About

Advancing Environmental Law Reform, Implementation and Action in the Pacific – Project focused on improving understanding of the state of environmental law in the Pacific Islands region. The project outputs included strengthening the capacity of Environmental Law Associations by engaging the ELAs to undertake community legal awareness in Fiji, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands; build capacity across the region of Environmental law practitioners and conservationists’ and develop and strengthen regional networks through the inaugural Oceania Environmental Law Conference; and increase the capacity of Judges and Prosecutors in the region on environmental law issues and the application and implementation of the environmental rule of law. IUCN engaged SIELA and FELA who completed two community legal awareness workshops in Fiji and Solomon Islands through their funds given to them. IUCN held the Inaugural Oceania Environmental Law Conference in 2021. A Conference Outcomes Statement is the main output of the Conference. A publication titled “Towards 2030 and Beyond: Highlights of the Inaugural IUCN Oceania Environmental Law Conference 2021 (Oceania Environmental Law Congress) & the Environmental Roundtable Dialogue” contains the highlights of the Conference together with an Environmental Roundtable Dialogue which socialised for the first time the Conference Outcomes Statement. UNEP, FELA and IUCN developed an Introductory Course on Environment and Climate Law for Lawyers and Judges in the Pacific through funding from UNEP but this Project funded the design of the workbook, which is available on UNEP’s InforMEA Platform where the course is available.

Framework Action Tracks

20 – Governance that works for nature conservation

Status

Ongoing

The Pacific Islands Roundtable for Nature Conservation (PIRT) is supported by the Pacific BioScapes Programme.

The Pacific BioScapes Programme is a European Union (EU) funded action, managed and implemented by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP).
The Programme contributes to the sustainable development of Pacific Small Island Developing States through the implementation of 30 focused activities taking place across a diversity of ecosystems in 11 countries (Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu) that will address critical issues concerning coastal and marine biodiversity, and ecosystem-based responses to climate change adaptation.
For more information, please visit: www.sprep.org/bioscapes

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