SPREP

Biodiversity is a key focus for SPREP this month with the 11th Pacific Islands Conference for Nature Conservation in Noumea from 7-11 September. The conference aims to advance biodiversity conservation and sustainable natural resource management.
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🔥Haze and wildfires in Papua New Guinea.
🏥Whooping cough and dengue fever outbreaks in Vanuatu.
🚱Water shortages in Fiji and Solomon Islands.
🌊Storm surges in Kiribati.

El Niño is making its presence known, and felt, across the Pacific.

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🌡️Strong El Niño to influence rainfall, temperatures and cyclones into 2027.

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#ResilientPacific #ElNino #PacificRCC #COSPPac

🌦️ Samoa Met Service, with Earth Sciences NZ support, is refurbishing #AutomaticWeatherStations at four sites to strengthen #Weather observations and #EarlyWarnings under SPREP’s #WeatherReadyPacific Programme: Afiamalu, Nu’u, Nafanua (SROS) and Saoluafata.

🤝 Last month during PMC-8 in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, SPREP and the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen cooperation across meteorology, hydrology and climate services.

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