As of 1969, the scientific community had no general information on the natural history of Namoluk Atoll in the Eastern Caroline Islands of Micronesia. The only significant published source for the atoll was an ethnographic and linguistic account provided by the German physician.
Climate change is real and Asia is already experiencing its adverse impacts. Projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggest that such impacts will become even more intense in the future. While the contribution of developing countries in Asia to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is increasing rapidly, per capita emissions are still low and developmental challenges remain significant.
Reefs at Risk Revisited is a high-resolution update of the original global analysis, Reefs at Risk: A Map-Based Indicator of Threats to the World’s Coral Reefs. Reefs at Risk Revisited uses a global map of coral reefs at 500-m resolution, which is 64 times more detailed than the 4-km resolution map used in the 1998 analysis, and benefits from improvements in many global data sets used to evaluate threats to reefs (most threat data are at 1 km resolution, which is 16 times more detailed than those used in the 1998 analysis).
Data submitted to the UN Ozone Secretariat highlighting the trend of ODS consumption (calculated as Production (if any) + imports - exports) in Palau. Ozone Depleting Substances calculated here are HCFCs and Methal Bromide.
Regional framework to assess the regional monitoring indicators that measure the status of managed conservation areas set aside under the Micronesia Challenge. The tool allows you to see the monitoring progress and learn more about the monitoring data collected across the region.
The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) is the most comprehensive global database of marine and terrestrial protected areas, updated on a monthly basis, and is one of the key global biodiversity data sets being widely used by scientists, businesses, governments, International secretariats and others to inform planning, policy decisions and management.
This dataset provides direct internet links to Palau's data hosted on the GBIF website/ records.
Dataset that provides a direct internet link to Palau's climate change data portal.
FAO Agriculture and Fair Trade in Pacific Island Countries. This desk study has been prepared by Winnie Fay Bell and comments were kindly provided by the Pacific Regional Organic Task Force in May 2009
Palau's National Determined Contribution as means to achieve the Paris Agreement.
Palau's roadmap to achieve energy efficiency by 2020
Documentation on getting started with the Inform Data Portal
Data on the recovery of Palau's Coral Reefs
Data on Palau’s Protected Areas Network including Biodiversity Planning and eco-regional assessments
Data on Palau's Marine Biodiversity including data on Palau's marine protected areas
The Nature Conservancy’s Mapping Ocean Wealth Project: Modelling and mapping fishing pressure the current and potential standing stock of coral-reef fishes in five jurisdictions of Micronesia
Data on Reef Fish Recovery in countries and information is also useful for Palau's Reef Fish Biomass
Data on Palau's Reef Fish including information extracted from researches on reef fish in micronesia
Data on Creel survey and demographic assessments of coastal finfish fisheries of southern Palau
Data on Vulnerability of oceanic fisheries in the tropical Pacific to climate change