AGP Executive Report
Last update: 2 hours agoIndigenous-led conservation: Traditional leaders, conservation practitioners, youth and Indigenous advocates are meeting for the Pacific Inclusive Conservation Learning Exchange, backed by IUCN and Conservation International, to strengthen customary governance, climate resilience and sustainable financing across the region including Vanuatu. Climate adaptation funding: The GEF has approved four new Pacific climate adaptation projects (about US$14m in grants with $43m+ co-financing), including a Vanuatu initiative to help communities, ecosystems and critical infrastructure withstand flooding, sea-level rise and coastal erosion. Child-centred climate action: Young Pacific voices at Vanuatu’s Pacific Innovation Forum on Climate and Environment are calling for children to have real power in climate decisions, with Save the Children NextGen youth pushing for space, agency and resources. Regional climate cooperation: Hawaiʻi, California and Pacific partners including Vanuatu wrapped up the inaugural Pacific Climate Summit with a joint pledge to deepen adaptation and resilience work across the Asia-Pacific. Pacific plastic pollution push: SPREP highlights Pacific voices in global plastic pollution talks ahead of next week’s Nairobi negotiations, stressing the urgency for a treaty that tackles leakage into ocean ecosystems. Security and environment link: Australia and Vanuatu signed the Nakamal Agreement, including commitments to keep Vanuatu’s territory free of foreign military bases and to protect critical infrastructure from militarisation—an issue that also intersects with disaster response and climate resilience planning.
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