Pacific Islands Development Forum II
Fe’iloakitau Kaho Tevi
June 2014
IUCN ORO
IUCN in Oceania
IUCN has been active in the
region for many years.
– 29 Australian members
– 10 New Zealand
– 18 Pacific Islands
– State Members (Region)
• Nauru, Fiji, Solomons,
Tonga, Samoa, Vanuatu,
PNG? Palau? Kiribati?
Tuvalu?, Marshals
• Australia, New Zealand,
USA, France, China, Japan,
Malaysia
Quotes from IUCN DG
“Nature can and does provide solutions
to development challenges such as
climate change, and food, water and
energy security. It is time governments
included nature in development
strategies.”
Julia Marton-Lefèvre, IUCN Director General
IUCN’s Programme framework 2013-16
BIODIVERSITY
Species
Marine
P/Areas
GREEN ECONOMY
- Sustainable Energy
-Sustainable Transport
- Private Sector
-Green Growth and
Leadership
GOVERNANCE
Law
Economics
NATURE BASED
SOLUTIONS
Water and Wetlands
Mangroves
Food Security
Big development issues in the Pacific .. & Tropics
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Unsustainable use of Natural Resources
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Logging
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Mining
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Fishery – offshore / inshore
Governance
Emerging social challenges
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Right Education & Targeted Capacity
Health
Dependence on fossil fuel: Barking up the wrong tree…
Managing Resources
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Who owns the tap?
Who decides?
Who benefits?
Are we still in control?
Fisheries? Forests? Mining? Oil and Gas?
A new narrative
• Shift from Vulnerability to Value
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Climate change lens - 10m people in 30m sq Km of
healthy ocean
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Per capita lens is not relevant
More than Tuna…. Healthy ocean habitats
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Support efforts for conservation and management
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Large and small MPAs
Pacific Island Region – Environment and
Culture: Gift of Global Value
Pivotal Decade – Getting Sustainable Development
right….
Economy
Society
Environment
Status Quo
ECONOMY
Greening Growth
ENVIRONMENT
SOCIETY
Leadership
Space
Coalitions
Inaugural meeting of the Green Growth Core Group
Outcomes of Natadola GGLC Core Group
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Green Growth is not optional for the Pacific.
The current model of exponential, cumulative
growth without consideration of
environmental, social and inter-generational
values must be revised.
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we must turn it into an opportunity to force
change
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Re-invent our future based on value, not
vulnerability, on value, not volume.
Defining Green Growth
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GGLC proposes a process to define Green Growth
in the Pacific context
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GGLC proposes a set of guiding tools that would
allow for more informed discussions
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GGLC sets a number of results to be achieved in
promoting a Pacific definition of Green Growth
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GGLC proposes a way forward on implementing
Green Growth.
© IUCN
PARTNERSHIPS
Minerals
Forestry
Tourism
Re-defining National Development Strategies
on conservation – Development axis
National
talanoa
Fisheries
Education
Extractives
Consultative process
Creating
Multiple
Platforms
Forestry
Tourism
GG
Fisheries
Education
Integrating Green
Growth principles in
National Development
Strategic Plans
2015
Engaging communities
through the talanoa process
Partnerships in LEGGASI
IUCN
Contribution of
network and focus
on biodiversity and
environment
PLP
Towards a Pacific style in
the development of
Coalitions of leaders
around a key priority
GIZ
UNESCAP
economic analysis
of GG projections
and inclusion of
UN perspective
LEGGASI
for Climate
adaptation priorities
and specific
contribution to
Solomon Islands RT.
PROMOTING OWNERSHIP AND PARTNERSHIPS
TONGA
/HA’APAI
GREEN
GROWTH
STRATEGY
VANUATU
NATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
PLAN
MSG
DECLARATION
ON
ENVIRONMENT
SOLS PM
ROUNDTABLE/
NDS REVIEW
PNG GREEN
GROWTH
COALITION
PROCESS
FIJI GREEN GROWTH
DEVELOPMENT
FRAMEWORK
GG
SPACE
PIDF PROCESS
2015 - 2030
As we see it: Green Growth is
about:
• Placing culture and Pacific values at the
centre of development
• Identifying the “transition” path from
current brown economy to new green
economy
• Get “sustainable development” right
• Sustainable Development – Conservation
Axis:
• Unique spaces for greater innovative
partnerships
LET’S GET IT RIGHT!
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