The Blue Pacific

The “Blue Pacific” seeks to re-capture the collective potential of our shared stewardship of the Pacific Ocean based on an explicit recognition of our shared “ocean identity”, “ocean geography”,and “ocean resources”. It aims to strengthen
collective action as one “Blue Pacific Continent” by putting “The Blue Pacific” at the centre of the policy making and collective action for advancing the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders’ Vision for our Region.

Samoa Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi. UN Oceans Conference, 5th June 2017, New York.

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Forum Leaders Commit to Collective Action for A Strong Blue Pacific
20/09/2018
Pacific Islands Forum Leaders have reaffirmed their commitment to collective action for a strong Blue Pacific region that is secure, peaceful, and prosperous, enabling its people to live free, healthy and productive lives. The 2018 Forum Leaders Communique, released following the Forum Leaders Retreat in Nauru, commits the Forum to working for sustainable development in the region on its own terms and in ways that recognise its rich culture, national circumstances, and oceanic resources. The Communique identifies regional security, climate change and disaster risk resilience, fisheries, ocean management and conservation, and childhood obesity as the priority areas for collective action by the region. In response to the region’s increasingly complex and evolving security environment, Forum Leaders endorsed the Boe Declaration on regional security. The Declaration highlights climate change as the greatest threat to the security, livelihood, and wellbeing of Pacific people. Building on, and complementing the Biketawa Declaration (2001) and other regional security declarations and policy instruments, the Boe Declaration emphasises an expanded concept of security that includes human security, humanitarian assistance, environmental security, and regional cooperation in building resilience to disasters and climate change. The Declaration is named after the Boe district in Nauru, where the Declaration was officially agreed to by the Leaders. Forum Leaders were very clear about the importance of immediate urgent action to combat climate change. There was a commitment for sustained, high level representation and collaboration in the lead up to, and during, the 24th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Convention (COP 24). This collective advocacy will be targeted to ensure the Pacific region’s priorities are heard, particularly with regard to the development of the Rule Book and Guidelines for implementing the Paris Agreement. The Forum Leaders called on countries, particularly large emitters, to fully implement their Nationally Determined Contribution mitigation targets. They also requested the U.N Secretary General to appoint a special adviser on climate change and security, and a special rapporteur to review global, regional, and national security threats caused by climate change.

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Introductory Remarks by Deputy Secretary General Cristelle Pratt at the International Partnership for Blue Carbon Meeting

Keynote Address by Secretary General Meg Taylor to the 2018 State of the Pacific Conference

Remarks by the Prime Minister, Hon. Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, Outgoing Chair of the Pacific Islands Forum

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Prime Minister Of Samoa At The Opening Ceremony Of The 48th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting

Secretary General Dame Meg Taylor Speaking At The Opening Ceremony Of The 48th Pacific Islands Forum

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President Christian of Federated States of Micronesia remarks to SIG PIF RAMSI meeting

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