AGP Executive Report
Last update: 12 hours agoPacific Climate & Media: Pacific Editors and news leaders wrapped up the Savusavu Loss and Damage Media Declaration, urging action to keep 1.5°C “alive and thrive” while highlighting the media’s role in covering climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. Samoa Environment Grants: Samoa CARES delivered $3.12m in environmental grants to 62 community groups, backing coral reef conservation, mangrove rehabilitation, solar lighting and safer, lower-diesel community energy, plus hydroponics, poultry and better land management. Regional Nature Conservation Deal: SPREP and Conservation International signed a five-year MOU to boost Pacific-led conservation science, innovative finance and community solutions for nature protection and climate resilience. Samoa Climate Science Boost: Samoa’s SROS and SPC agreed a long-term science partnership to strengthen climate loss-and-damage research, monitoring, lab capability and data collection for better national decisions. Ocean Protection Gap: A new global study says only about 10% of the world’s oceans are designated for conservation, with far less effectively protected—raising the stakes for stronger marine safeguards. UN Fossil Fuel Push: UN chief António Guterres urged governments to adopt fossil-fuel transition plans with clear timelines and worker/community protections. India–Pacific Cooperation: On UNGA sidelines, India’s FIPIC foreign ministers reaffirmed cooperation on renewables, climate action and disaster resilience, with Samoa’s Deputy PM and Finance Minister among participants.
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