This occasional newsletter highlights events and stories about innovation in sustainable development for rural, remote and island regions. We want to change the discourse to demonstrate how islandness can be a driver for innovation.
About Coral Pasisi
Coral Pasisi is an earth scientist and development planner with over 20 years of experience in the Pacific Islands region, focusing on sustainable development, climate change and associated financing. She has worked at the government level in Niue as a Sustainable Development Planner, and at the regional level for the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) as a Regional and International Issues Adviser; and for the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP). She was formerly the Regional Advisor to the Pacific for the Green Climate Fund and is the Director of Sustainable Pacific Consultancy. In addition, Ms. Pasisi runs the non-profit organization Tofia Niue, which works in partnership with the local government and global philanthropic organizations, to protect and sustainably manage ocean resources.
