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The map shows landcover and vegetation impact of the Hunga Tonga Hunga Haápai volcanic eruption on the Tonga Island group.

The map was produced by JRC.. Joint Research Centre of the EU.  It provided a situation overview  as  at 18 & 19 Jan, 2022 Sources provided by UN OCHA.  Sattelite mapping activation sources: Corpernicus, UNOSAT- UNITR, International Charter Activation 744.

This document also provide some infomation on the  types of assistance that have been provided to the people as well as findings from the assessment. 

Concerns are raised over potential negative impacts of desalination activity on the environment.

Resource and Guidance Manual for Environmental Impact Assessments

Suggested Citation :

UNEP (2008) Desalination Resource and Guidance Manual for Environmental Impact Assessments. United Nations Environment Programme,   Regional Office for West Asia, Manama, and World Health Organization,   Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo

This situation report released by the National Emergency Management Office (NEMO) is to inform operational partners on current situation of the secondary effects of the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai (HTHH) Volcanic eruption. This Situation report (Sitrep) covers the period stated above. Frequency of reports will depend on availability of new information and evolving operation.

This report on the State of the Climate in South-West Pacific 2020 is the first of its kind for this region and a milestone multi-agency effort to deliver informed climate analysis and climate change trends.

Proposed Project Objective: Enhanced use of data for decision making in the environment sector throughout the Pacific region. Building on the tools and momentum the Inform project established, this scaled up project will expand the user base and fill significant gaps including in situ monitoring, increased partnerships between the environment ministries and other ministries, increase use of spatial tools, and the establishment of standardise environmental standards and key indicators for key resources.

Focusing management efforts on thermal refugia may only be effective in the short-term. Promoting adaptation to higher temperatures and facilitating migration will instead be needed to secure coral reef survival.

The maps highlights areas with significant shift in the shoreline  by overlaying shoreline data  from Nov 2021 and January 2022. 

The maps highlights areas with significant shift in the shoreline  by overlaying shoreline data  from Nov 2021 and January 2022

The study indicated that the sampling locations at an industrial site of Suva City is highly predominated with almost all of the studied metals and is a concern to the general public who live and work within the vicinity of Walu Bay industrial area.

At present in the Fiji Islands, no guidelines are available only for biological parameters for receiving water bodies commonly used for recreational activities. The ANZECC (2000) guidelines recommend the use of Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Enterococci (Faecal Coliforms) as indicator organisms for fecal contamination of fresh and marine recreational water. This study compiled results for 3 biological parameters, namely, Total Coliforms (TC), E. coli and Faecal Coliforms (FC) at 3 sites in Fiji, namely; My Suva park, Wailea settlement and Centre Point.

Module 3 of the Inform E-learning GIS course

By the end of this module, you should be able to  have some basic understanding of 

  • What  a GIS is?
  • Understand the key components and  functions of a GIS
  • Understand how spatial data is represented in a GIS.
  • Understand how data are stored and accessed to use in mapping

At the end of this module we hope that you will understand the

  • steps of downloading and installing QGIS software on your computers?
  • Be able to open up GGIS and familiarize yourself with the software interface and
  • Know how to add both vector and raster data to QGIS

 

Learning Objectives

  • Layout manager and Map Composer
  • Basic Map Composition
  • Loading Map Elements
  • Exporting the Map
  • Saving and Closing Project

Concept Note and Agenda