Abstract
The origins of contemporary regionalism in the Pacific are explored to understand the degree of regional interdependence, the strength of regional identity or regional awareness, and the creation of regional organizations that reflect and in some cases create this identity. The first part of the chapter provides a brief overview of regional governance, and analyses the sense of shared identity articulated as the ‘Pacific Way’. Though difficult to define, the Pacific Way is the ideational underpinning of key regional organizations and a way of structuring decision-making in a manner that reinforces distinctiveness and a shared way of approaching cooperation and contention. The second part of the chapter maps the mandates, resources, and competencies of the various regional organizations concerned with climate change in the Pacific, illustrating both the complexity and coherence in the regional architecture.
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Until September 2016 membership was restricted to independent sovereign states but at the 47th Pacific Islands Forum Summit in Pohnpei it was unanimously agreed to grant full membership to French Polynesia and New Caledonia.
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SPREP is also the secretariat for the Convention on Conservation of Nature in the South Pacific (Apia Convention), but the operation of the Apia Convention was suspended in 2006.
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Williams, M., McDuie-Ra, D. (2018). Organizing a Regional Response to Climate Change in the Pacific. In: Combatting Climate Change in the Pacific. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69647-8_2
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