Six presidents from South Pacific States (the Republic of Kiribati, Republic of Marshall Islands, Republic of Nauru, Republic of Palau, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu) and President Chen signed the Palau Declaration in Koror City, the capital of the Republic of Palau, on September 4th ,2006. Following the Palau Declaration, the leaders of Taiwan and our allied states thus agreed to launch a Taiwan-Pacific Environmental Ministerial Meeting. The Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration(TEPA) hold the「2007 Taiwan-Pacific Allies Environmental Ministerial Meeting」at the Grand Hotel, Taipei, on July 25th to 28th, 2007. The Environmental Ministers and senior officials from the Republic of Kiribati, Republic of Marshall Islands, Republic of Nauru, Republic of Palau, and Solomon islands all participated in the meeting. During the meeting, Minister Dang of TEPA and Ministers of the Southern Pacific Allies gave statement on issues concerning climate change and sustainable environmental development. A joint conclusion was announced in the post-meeting press release. Besides, some technical and culture tours were arranged to show the honored guests not only the promotion of climate change and environmental protection by Taiwan, but also the culture and hospitality of our country. The Ministerial Meeting focus on discussing the promotion of international cooperation projects of climate change and sustainable environmental development that contains long-term dialogue on environmental protection among the States; sharing techniques and experiences of implementation of environmental resources management, marine pollution control, waste management, and sustainable development; capacity building for climate change response, and development and implementation of cooperative programs on impacts and adaptation. The cooperative projects between Taiwan and the Allied States will focus on waste management, water quality protection, and impacts and adaptation of climate change. The waste management will cover landfill, storage, incineration, recycling and educational training; water quality protection will include water quality testing and marine pollution control; the impacts and adaptation of climate change focus on rain water harvesting system, quality and amount of groundwater, and impacts to coral reef and adaptation strategies. Three cooperative projects concerning the groundwater resources management, coral reef and rainfall harvesting in the south pacific allies are provided. International cooperative strategies are also proposed using SWOT to analyze the strength, weakness, opportunity and threaten of Taiwan.

Environmental Ministerial Meeting, Climate Change, Environmental Protection