The Regional Secretariat of CTI-CFF paid a visit to Papua New Guinea (PNG) in preparation for the 12th Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) and the 6th Ministerial Meeting (MM) of CTI-CFF. The events are scheduled to be held in Port Moresby on 31 October – 3 November 2016.
Some positive meeting outcomes with senior officials of PNG:
The Full Report of Implementation Planning Meeting of Sulu Sulawesi Seascape in Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management (EAFM), which conducted on 2-5 June 2015 in Manado, Indonesia.
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Following the 13th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS) in Honolulu, Hawaii (18–24 June 2016), several important activities were planned and scheduled for the Regional Secretariat (RS) CTI-CFF to conduct and participate in:
Happy Coral Triangle Day 2016: Save the Coral Triangle – Stop Plastic Pollution!
Let's keep plastic out of the Coral Triangle
Plastic is perhaps one of the most useful inventions. We use plastic in almost every aspect of our lives: plastic bottles to hold our drinking water, plastic bags for our food, even plastic particles—called microbeads—in our toothpaste. Yuck, how does plastic enter our food chain? And what can we do about it?
Climate adaptation planning provides an opportunity to enhance the adaptive capacity of stakeholders across multiple levels. However, reviews of standard top-down and bottom-up approaches indicate that the value of multistakeholder involvement is not fully recognized or incorporated into guidelines. Focusing on provinces in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea within the Coral Triangle region, we present a novel integrated top-down and bottom-up planning approach.
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- The Regional Secretariat of the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries, and Food Security (CTI-CFF), together with National Coordinating Committees (NCC) from its six member countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste), development partners, and neighbouring countries, celebrated the 5th Coral Triangle Day on June 9.
The Regional Secretariat of CTI-CFF, in partnership with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and www.thecoraltriangle.com, will be putting the spotlight on the ever-growing problem of plastic pollution in celebration of Coral Triangle Day via a social media campaign called #noplace4plastic, which derived from the main theme “Save Coral Triangle – Stop Plastic Pollution”.
Improving human and environmental conditions through the Coral Triangle Initiative: Progress and Challenges – Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 2016, 19: 169-181
The Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries, and Food Security (CTI-CFF) is an ambitious marine conservation and governance program engaging six countries in Southeast Asia and Melanesia. It has attracted significant international support, including an investment of over $40 million from the United States through the five-year U.S. Coral Triangle Initiative Support Program.
Coastal Management – The international journal of marine environment, resources, law, and society – is providing complimentary access until May 31st to the twenty most-read articles published since 2014, seven of which focus on Coral Triangle Initiative issues.
The papers include:
