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Pacific’s concerns in Guam EPA confab
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Posted on May 26 2005
The Pacific Islands Office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will host a five-day conference next month on Guam focusing on a wide range of topics relating to environmental challenges facing the Pacific islands.
Known as the 24th Pacific Islands Environment Conference, the event will be attended by environment officials and representatives from the Northern Mariana Islands, United States, Guam, American Samoa, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands, as well as other countries within the Pacific region.
“The conference will bring together leaders in government and industries from around the Pacific to examine environmental challenges and issues facing the Pacific Islands,” said John McCarroll, manager of the EPA Region IX Pacific Islands Office. “The sessions will discuss strategies to make a difference in protecting the island environments and will provide island leaders with the latest ideas and tools on preserving fragile ecosystems.”
Among those to be discussed are economic approaches to improving costly infrastructure in the Pacific islands, the impacts poor environment has on the local businesses and what the private sector is doing to lead change, health impacts from water pollution, community and non-government activities to improve the environment in the Pacific, and the latest effort to address solid waste and recycling in the Pacific.
The conference will also include a panel discussion on adaptation to climate change.
The conference will be held from June 20-24 at the Hilton Guam Resort and Spa. Working sessions for EPA, territorial environment, utility, and public works agencies will be on June 20-21. The main conference program will be on June 22-24.
For more information about the conference, contact conference coordinators Pacific Rim Concepts LLC at (808) 864-9812 or email prc@hawiibiz.rr.com; or Carl Goldstein at (415) 972-3767 or email at goldstein.carl@epa.gov; or Mariela Lopez at (415) 972-3771 or email at lopez.mariela@epa.gov.
