Pacific Islands Environment Outlook - UNEP

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Contents Preface Acknowledgements Introduction vii ix xi Chapter One: State of the Environment 1 Chapter Two: Policy Responses 27 Chapter Three: Alternative Policy Options 49 Chapter Four: Emerging Issues 55 References 60 Acronyms 62 Participants in the Regional Consultation 63
Text boxes Box 0.1: The GEO process viii Box 1.1: Logging in Solomon Islands 8 Box 2.1: National case study: PNG 30 Box 2.2: Climate change and sea level rise – a capacity-building response 31 Box 2.3: National case study: the Niue Treaty 32 Box 2.4: Members of the Council of Regional Organizations (CROP) 39 Box 2.5: Participation in the Convention on Biological Diversity 42 Box 2.6: Campaigning to raise awareness and change behaviour 43 Box 2.7: Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and the Lomé Convention 44 Box 2.8: Case study in collective policy-making – the South Pacific Biodiversity Conservation Programme (SPBCP) 45 Box 2.9: Lomé and the Pacific Region 46 Tables Table 1.1: Geographical data on PICs 3 Table 1.2: Solomon Islands – estimated species loss 10 Table 1.3: Tuna catch by major species in the Secretariat of the Pacific Community statistical area 17 Table 1.4: Estimated levels of vulnerability to specific natural hazards in selected PICs 19 Table 1.5: Summary of waste loads discharged from industrial wastewater in selected PICs 25 Table 1.6: Contamination by persistent organic pollutants in PICs 26 Table 2.1: Global Multilateral Environmental Agreements 29 Table 2.2: Progress to implement the Barbados Programme of Action 34 Table 2.3: Regional Multilateral Environmental Agreements 35 Table 2.4: Institutional arrangements at national level in PICs 37 Table 4.1: Indicative list of potential impacts of climate change and sea-level rise requiring adaptive responses in PICs 56 Figures Figure 0.1: Countries and territories covered by the Pacific Islands Environment Outlook xii Figure 1.1: Growth in total population for PICs, 1950–982 Figure 1.2: Forest cover (per cent of total land area) in some PICs 7 Figure 1.3: Percentage of Pacific populations with access to safe water 12 Figure 1.4: Reefs at risk by region and country 15 Figure 1.5: Coastal fisheries production in PICs 16 Figure 1.6: CO 2 emissions per capita for selected countries, 1975–95 18 Figure 1.7: Projected sea-level rise with adherence to Kyoto Protocol 20 Figure 1.8: Trends in urban population as a percentage of total population across PICs 21 Figure 1.9: Characteristics of municipal solid waste in PICs 24 Figure 2.1: Change in staffing levels of environment units in selected PICs 36 Figure 2.2: SPREP expenditure on regional environmental programmes 42
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