The Convention for the Protection of the Natural Resources and Environment of the South Pacific Region (1986), along with its two additional Protocols, entered into force in 1990. The Convention is a comprehensive umbrella agreement for the protection, management and development of the marine and coastal environment of the South Pacific Region, and represents the legal framework of the Action Plan for managing the Natural Resources and Environment of the South Pacific adopted in 1982 on behalf of the South Pacific Conference on Human Environment.
NISC (Palau National Invasive Species Committee). 2014. Annual Report.
Otobed, Demei and Iosefa A. Maiava. 1994. Republic of Palau: State of the Environment Report 1994. Apia, Western Samoa: South Pacific Regional Environment Programme.
State of Environment Report published in 2004 for Palau.
State of the Environment Report published in 2017
This document is part of a technical report series on conservation projects funded by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) and the Conservation International Pacific Islands Program (CI-Pacific)
2019 State of the Environment Report Republic of Palau, May 2019. National Environmental Protection Council (NEPC).
The NISSAP has not been endorsed.
There is no record of this Plan having been formally approved or adopted.
This is a user-friendly version of the required report to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). As requested by the CBD, the original version of this report was submitted using the online Clearinghouse Mechanism (CHM) of the CBD. It may be accessed at: https://chm.cbd.int/database/
record?documentID=248613
One of the recommendations emerging from the COP-8 (Decision XIII/8 [6]) promoted a series of regional and/or sub-regional workshops on capacity building for NBSAPs. These will
be held with the aim to discuss national experiences in implementing NBSAPs, the integration of biodiversity concerns into relevant sectors, obstacles, and ways and means
for overcoming these obstacles. It was recommended that these workshops be held (subject to the availability of funding) prior to COP-9, to provide an opportunity to directly support
Natural capital our ecosystems, biodiversity, and natural resources underpins economies, societies and individual well-being. The values of its myriad benefits are, however, often overlooked or poorly understood. They are rarely taken fully into account through economic signals in markets, or in day to day decisions by business and citizens, nor indeed reflected adequately in the accounts of society.