R.E.E.F. HOUSE: an Eco-Center for Tuvalu
Tribal Link Foundation
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Description
At TuCAN's request, Tribal Link is co-financing the project, bringing access to resources that TuCAN would not otherwise have access to. Architects/designers, researchers, innovators in New York are collaborating to solve problems through design, and create a model for sustainable architecture in the Pacific, where common problems exist on different islands. Tribal Links access to resources at the United Nations is an important aspect of the project.
The Eco-Center is envisioned as a hub of activity, knowledge, communication and innovation. As a community gathering place, as well as an ICT hub, (information communications technology) Tuvalu will be connected to other Pacific islands and the rest of the world. As an environmental education center, it will be a special place in the community to access and share online information, creating an activated, dynamic space.The Eco-Center will incorporate new technology and design strategies that can extend to other small islands in the Pacific, perhaps becoming best practices. The Tuvalu Eco-Center itself could become a best practice. Using alternative, renewable energy sources, the Center is designed to be energy self-sufficient, and should generate excess energy for people in the community to charge cell phones and other devices. The program for activities at the center would consider the NAPA as a guide, enabling local NGOs to carry out their parts of the NAPA, thereby strengthening relationships among the United Nations, the Tuvaluan government and non-governmental organizations.
Tuvalu Climate Action Network (TuCAN), the only climate change NGO in Tuvalu, and Tribal Link, an NGO in consultative status with the United Nations, New York are partners in building this Eco-Center on the capital island of Funafuti, Tuvalu. The project is enriched by its partnerships between the local Tuvaluan organizations and the global networks of the United Nations. Consequently, the design of the Center embodies traditional, local knowledge, and new technology with innovative designs to survive and thrive in the future.
SDGS & Targets
Goal 14
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
14.1
By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution
14.1.1
(a) Index of coastal eutrophication; and (b) plastic debris density
14.2
By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans
14.2.1
Number of countries using ecosystem-based approaches to managing marine areas
14.3
Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels
14.3.1
14.4
By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics
14.4.1
14.5
By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information
14.5.1
14.6
By 2020, prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and refrain from introducing new such subsidies, recognizing that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the World Trade Organization fisheries subsidies negotiation
14.6.1
Degree of implementation of international instruments aiming to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
14.7
By 2030, increase the economic benefits to Small Island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism
14.7.1
Sustainable fisheries as a proportion of GDP in small island developing States, least developed countries and all countries
14.a
Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries
14.a.1
14.b
Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets
14.b.1
Degree of application of a legal/regulatory/policy/institutional framework which recognizes and protects access rights for small‐scale fisheries
14.c
Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of "The future we want"
14.c.1
Number of countries making progress in ratifying, accepting and implementing through legal, policy and institutional frameworks, ocean-related instruments that implement international law, as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, for the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans and their resources
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Pamela Kraft, Executive Director