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Organization Overview:
The “Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development” (PACE-SD; PACE for short) has its origin in the Strategic Plan of USP 1999 and in the collective thinking of the USP environmental group represented by the Advisory Group on Environment (AGE). Since then PACE-SD has made substantial progress towards establishing itself firmly as a Centre of Excellence in Environmental Education and Research and has made considerable progress.
Since its inception in 2001, PACE-SD has been the forefront of a variety of Pacific environmental issues. In recognition of the need for the university to develop a more focussed and collaborative approach to environmental education, research, consultancy and capacity building in the Pacific Island region, PACE-SD was inaugurated in August 2001The Centre is designed to work with all other relevant sections of the university, regional and international environmental organizations, regional governments and NGOs to promote environmentally sustainable development. The Pacific region and the individual Island nations have made a strong commitment to international efforts to prevent further irreversible environmental change and to promote sustainable development by becoming party to numerous international “Multilateral Environmental Agreements”.
PACE-SD is committed to improving levels of environmental education at all levels, including the strengthening of human resources through improved tertiary education, strengthening the technical capacity within the region, and increasing awareness among policy makers and the general public of the nature of the environmental issues and current resource intensive development activities that serve as threats to environmentally and culturally sustainable development in the Pacific Islands.
Organization Location:
Suva
Mission/Vision Statement
The Centre has the main responsibility to co-ordinate the University of the South Pacific's work on human resource development in environmental education and in climate change to link it with the work of other regional agencies and universities. The Centre has the following goals:
- To serve as a focal point for the integrated study of environment and sustainable development issues at USP.
- To co-ordinate, stimulate, catalyze and carry out environmental teaching, research and consultancy at USP.
- To help improve synergism inside and outside USP in dealing with environmental issues and promoting sustainable development.
- To promote science-policy interactions and project level involvement between governments and environmental networks and USP.
- To enhance indigenous knowledge systems and community based utilization of natural resources towards culturally sensitive and environment friendly sustainable pathways.
- To provide information to present and prospective students and the outside community about professional courses and careers in the areas of environment and sustainable development and to offer specialized consultancy services.
