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Pacific Island Countries are very small in geographic space, in population and in administrative capacity – factors limiting the feasibility for development of effective country-based systems for environmental and social risk management

Cumulative impacts are changes to the environment caused by an action (i.e., project/s) in combination with other past, present, and future human actions.

The Shared Approach is intended to benefit the Pacific Island Countries through supporting and strengthening country safeguard/environmental and social systems; improving development effectiveness through the implementation of common methods, procedures and terminology; and refining counterpart understanding of PRIF development partner processes.

Nearly 25% of global deaths are attributed to economic decisions affecting environment, but stakeholders from the health community are mostly unaware of or not visible within discussions and negotiations on global environmental policies.

The key highlights of this month issue include: - Outcome of the Geneva biodiversity conference - Blue Deal for economic recovery and sustainable growth - Roles of indigenous communities in biodiversity protection - Rise in online wildlife trade - Financing chemicals and waste management - Plastic taxes as new environmental policies - Regionalizing UNEA 5.2 plastic resolution in East Africa - Promoting the Science-Policy-Society Interface of synthetic biology - Launching ACP MEAs 3 Youth Engagement and Training Initiative in Europe

The programme in the first quarter of 2022 include the key actions: - Promoting the science policy society interface of synthetic biology - Strengthening national capacity for effective implementation of chemicals and waste related MEAs in African countries. - Empowering youth in the eastern Africa region. - Galvanizing political will in the western Indian ocean region for the protection of coastal and marine resources. - Webinar on the feasibility and benefits of a transition to mercury-free lighting in CARICOM. - Supporting community based interventions on wastewater management in the Caribbean - Helping Antigua and Barbuda in phasing out mercury added products - Training Samoan government on sustainable development in the tourism sector - Launching ACP MEAs 3 youth engagement and training initiative in Europe.

A monthly e-bulletin of activities and assistance from the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme to its member countries.

A statistics report for food security in Samoa.

UNEP's emissions gap report 2021: The heat is on (EGR 2021,) released ahead of COP26 found that Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) leave the world on track for a global temperature rise of at least 2.7 degree celius this century.

Global environmental governance does not happen in vacuum. In the words of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, "the virus has thrived because poverty, discrimination, the destruction of our natural environment and other human rights failure have created enormous fragilities in our societies".