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The GEF OFP Regional Training Workshop and Asia Pacific Constituency Meeting took place in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, on May 13-16, 2025. Both events brought together 14 countries from the Asia-Pacific Region, including: Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Samoa, Timor Leste, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Philippines, Indonesia.

During the Global Environment Facility Operational Focal Point regional training workshop in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, participants visited the Takitumu Conservation Area to learn about how GEF investments are helping to preserve species such as the endemic and threatened kakerori bird.

Fifteen countries from across the Global South have united in the fight for a cleaner environment, with the approval of the largest global investment in tackling plastic pollution to date. With funding from the Global Environment Facility, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, India, Jordan, Laos, Morocco, Nigeria, Peru, Philippines, South Africa, and Senegal will collaborate to transition towards a circular economy for plastics under the $107 million program targeting single-use plastic packaging in the food and beverage industry.

The people of the Pacific islands may be among the smallest contributors to climate change, but they are on the frontline of its impacts.

The GEF ECW for the Pacific Islands Constituency will take place in Cook Islands from 6-8 October 2015.  

National Dialogues provide a means for a broad range of stakeholders within a country (government ministries and agencies, non-governmental/civil society organizations, communities, academic and research institutions and the private sector, as well as partners and donors) to come together learn, discuss and agree, or take steps toward agreement, on environmental issues across the board.