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Niue’s Ocean Conservation Commitments (OCCs) concept, has won the ‘Nature’ category of the Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards this week and also received an honourable mention in the ‘Water’ category

As world leaders gather in Dubai for the latest round of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP28) in Dubai, UAE, people in the Pacific nation of Niue are living in fear.  As the Festive Season approaches, they are bracing for the cyclone season...

Would you sponsor 1km² of ocean to help conserve the waters of this island country in the South Pacific?

For R2,800 per 1km2, individuals, companies, and philanthropies can obtain a certificate through Niue's innovative conservation plan.

United Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 22, 2023 - For a little under $150, you can now directly sponsor marine conservation across one square kilometer of the Pacific Ocean, through a novel scheme announced this week by the tiny island of Niue.

In a novel conservation strategy, the small South Pacific island state of Niue is offering individuals and institutions the opportunity to sponsor its marine sanctuary, home to pristine coral reefs,

The tiny Pacific island nation of Niue has come up with a novel plan to protect its vast and pristine territorial waters—it will get sponsors to pay. Under the plan, launched...

Niue has taken its scheme to get sponsors to pay for protecting much of its surrounding ocean to the UN General Assembly in New York.