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The overflowing Jable-Batkan dumpsite in Majuro is the urgent problem for waste management faced in the RMI. This dumpsite has long exceeded its design capacity with waste now pushed up to 17m high against a seawall on the ocean side of the atoll. The priority for RMI is to reduced waste disposal at the dumpsite. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seek to focus their PacWastePlus investment to introduce a programme to divert the largest two components of waste organics (17% and paper/cardboard (22%) from disposal and instead be processed to compost at an organic facility.

Marine litter negatively affects the environment, people and coastal economies around the world. In the Pacific region, the problem is even more severe given the reliance of countries on healthy ocean ecosystems and services.

There has been a continuous global concern regarding the disastrous impacts of climate change, sea level rise and climate related hazards. Scientific findings revealed that the global climate system is being adversely affected due to the accumulation of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) in the atmosphere. This has been scientifically proved to be caused by anthropogenic activities.

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was established as an operating entity of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2010. As the world’s largest fund dedicated to the fight against climate change, the GCF will to continue to channel significant flows of international climate finance to the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) over the coming decades.

The key purpose of the Marshall Islands’ Country Programme (CP) is to enable the Marshallese climate action aspirations to be realised by identifying short-term and long-term projects, programmes and investment priorities. The CP outlines the Marshall Islands’ national priorities and presents opportunities for the preparation of GCF funding proposals leading to transformational impacts.

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was established in 2010 and is now the world’s largest fund dedicated to the fight against climate change. Finance from the GCF can be used to support the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) to achieve a paradigm shift to low-carbon pathways and climate-resilient development. The GCF aims to achieve this by investing in transformative projects and programmes on climate adaptation and mitigation that contribute to national climate change policies and priorities. The RMI GCF Handbook has been prepared to provide clear, simplified and practical guidance for stakeholders to understand the GCF’s requirements for accessing resources to develop and implement climate change projects.

Bok In Kōmmeḷeḷe in (ak Handbook in) kijjien GCF kar maroñ kōpooje ñan kōmālij im kapidodoik meḷeḷe ko ñan ro tōllọkier bwe ren meḷeḷe kōn men ko me juon-im-juon (ak juon laḷ) ej aikuj kōṃṃani im katōpraki bwe en maroñ bōk leen jipañ kein ñan kattōri būrojāāk ko kijjien oktak in mejatoto.

As a result of a substantial reform program undertaken in the mid-2000s, Tonga has dedicated legislation for waste management. This legislation provides a central point of administration for waste management matters in Tonga under the auspices of the Tonga Waste Authority Ltd (WAL).

Some analysis of the main national waste situation has been undertaken as part of preparation of the National Waste Management Strategy 2012-2016 and Action Plan. This document can be found in Appendix B to a June 2015 PDP report for SPREP on Assessment of Status and Options for Solid Waste Management on Majuro Atoll 2015. This report describes the National Waste Management Strategy as in draft form and with cabinet for its approval.

Tonga's ground action on eradicating invasive species