Pacific Islands Environment Outlook - UNEP

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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