On #IndigenousPeoplesDay we celebrate the #IndigenousWomen who play a🗝️role in preserving and passing on traditional knowledge. Winifereti Nainoca UNDP Pacific Office in Fiji shares how she’s been able to integrate traditional ecological knowledge while overseeing projects. bit.ly/3GT7Tkk

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

Just 100m from my lodging in Bairiki #Kiribati... a decade ago (or even less) this must have been a beautiful well rooted tree many metres from the sea. Now struggling to remain standing. 😪 Sea level rise woes UNDP Pacific Office in Fiji

According to our projections, we expect to be able to clean the entire Great Pacific Garbage Patch (containing 100,000,000kg of plastic) using ten systems based on System 03.

Courtesy call with the Honorable Governor of Pohnpei state Pohnpei Governor's Office Public Information and his team. We discussed the implications of sea-level rise and the importance of long-term adaptation responses.

The UN works for everyone, everywhere by: 🇺🇳 preventing conflict 🇺🇳 vaccinating children 🇺🇳 protecting refugees 🇺🇳 feeding the hungry 🇺🇳 addressing the climate crisis 🇺🇳 empowering women 🇺🇳 responding to #COVID19 & more. Today, 24 October, is #UNDay: un.org/en/observances…

Pacific Islanders have been fighting environmental crises for centuries, if only the world would notice grist.org/fix/oceans/pac…

Pacific Islanders have been fighting environmental crises for centuries, if only the world would notice grist.org/fix/oceans/pac…

The 💊 pill popping ritual continues at breakfast! Yahuwah willing 🙏 yours truly expiry date in 20 yrs time. Next 20 years of blissful, 7day w/e, sleep as long as you like, gardening joyfully n browse the shops to your hearts content 💕 between digging deep into the Bible 😀

The amazing and dynamic ACWA team implementing the $26m Green Climate Fund project in the Republic of the Marshall Islands 🇲🇭 Building water 💦 resilience in the outer atolls in the face of climate change. Leaving no one behind

Food cubes for Food Security!.etc etc in "Climate Security in the Pacific project" - funded by Peace Building Fund (PBF) through United Nations implementation by UNDP Pacific Office in Fiji & @IOM for 3 PICs #Kiribati #RMI #Tuvalu collab with #PIFS Forum Sec. Project Board Update 15 Dec 2022

Lunching with colleagues.. chow n chit chat... enjoyed!

'Sea level rise' is not just a 'catchy' Climate phrase but a daily THREAT to existence to our low lying atoll islands in Pacific- Kiribati, Tuvalu & Marshall Is UNDP Pacific Office in Fiji #Climate Today, Climate Security project "to review Climate Security Risk Profile documents workshop"

#Tonga Fanga'uta Lagoon community based managmt continue in Global Environment Facility (GEF) 7 STAR with Ridge to Reef phase 2 UNDP Pacific Office in Fiji workg with MEIDECC & Dept of Env 45,985 beneficiaries, 5,715 hectare protectea area, 120 ha wetlands restored (20ha coral reefs, 20 ha sea grass, 80ha mangroves)

After 39 years, finally fulltime work ends in one week's time, next leg of life begins: looking fwd! Excitement much: 1st tings 1st -Bible in a year, BWF, Board duties, James Patterson time, garden 4 TLC, get 39 yrs lost rest n sleep, crochet, Rewa & Noco call, grandmahood & R&R!

Suva is in Rewa Province, #Fiji . Rewa Strategic Development Plan launched 14 Dec by Hon Sakiusa Tubuna The 8 Priority areas linked to #SDGs & iTaukei Platforms with 'Theory of Change'. Using #Indigenous framework of 'mud lobster' metaphor to represent SDP work

We’ve just completed our 100th plastic extraction from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - livestreaming the entire operation from start to finish. Here’s a look back at some of the extractions from #1 to #100:

Since opening for signatures, 90 countries have signed 🖊️ and 7 countries 🇲🇺🇲🇨🇨🇱 🇵🇼 🇧🇿 🇸🇨🇫🇲 have ratified the #HighSeasTreaty 👏 🔍 Has your country ratified the Treaty yet? ⏳The #RaceForRatification is on! Follow progress and take action: ctt.ec/3uoL0+ #BBNJ

The ocean is home to 250,000 known species & countless more awaiting discovery. Yet, marine species face a triple threat of rising temperatures, acidification & deoxygenation. Let's do more to protect this biodiversity hotspot: unes.co/qw1xpq

Blessed to be Indigenous Local Knowledge (ILK) Expert (Consultancy) with Oceans Decade, joining the Decade Coordinating Unit (DCU), IOC, UNESCO. Working remotely from Fiji & lead development of operational strategy for ILK in the Ocean Decade in lead-up to UNOC 2025 and beyond.