Niue

Country Strategy Papers and National Indicative Programmes [European Union - EDF10]
Niue (2008-2013; 1.9mb)

Legislative Reviews 
Niue (1993; 4.77mb), Niue - analysis (2007; 382kb), Niue - review (2007; 437kb)

National Action Programmes (NAP) to combat land degradation [UNCCD]
Niue (2004; 1.44mb)

National Biodiversity Strategic Action Plans (NBSAP)
Niue (2001; 1.66mb)

National Biosafety Frameworks
Niue (2006; 295kb)

National Capacity Self Assessment (NCSA) 

Stocktake Reports: Niue (2006; 404kb)

Thematic Assessment Reports:
Biodiversity: Niue (2008;204kb)
Climate Change: Niue (2008;204kb)
Land degradation: Niue (2008;204kb)

Cross-cutting Analysis: Niue (2008; 644kb)

Action Plans:
Niue (2008; 1.27mb)

NCSA Status (NCSA website)
Niue ,

National climate change policies
Niue (2009; 55kb)

National Environment Management Strategy (NEMS) 
Niue (1993; 6.74mb)

National Integrated Water Resource Management : Diagnostic Reports - drafts only [SOPAC]
Niue (2007; 1mb)

National Invasive Species Strategy

Invasives reports: Niue (2004; 873kb)

see also Invasive alien species in the Austral-Pacific region: national reports and directory of resources[GISP] (2002; 3.75mb)

see also Invasives Species on Pacific Islands [reports] - HEAR / PIER project website

National [Sustainable] Development Plans / Strategies [ForumSec]
Niue 2003-2008 (2003?; 418kb) , Niue 2009-2013 (2009;217kb)

National Assessment Reports: Niue (2006; 327kb)

Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change [PACC] - reports, activities and PACC news updates
Niue

Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change [PACC] - report of in-country consultations 
Niue (2009; 145kb)

Pacific Regional Consultation on Water in Small Island Countries - Country briefings
Niue (2003; 93kb)

Pacific Regional Energy Assessment: Country Reports (PIREP) 
Niue (2004; 1.25kb)

Regional overview report (2004; 2.59mb)

Peristant Organic Pollutants (POPs): Country Plans
Niue (2003; 395kb)

National Implementation Plans
Niue (2005; 7.88mb)

The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal (Basel Convention, 1989), the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade (Rotterdam Convention, 1998) and the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) (Stockholm Convention, 2001) together provide an international framework for the environmentally sound management of hazardous chemicals throughout their life cycles.

Priority Environmental Concerns (PECs) Reports
Niue (2004; 373kb)

Sea Level & Climate: their present state: Country reports
Niue (2006; 979kb)

Ships' Waste Management in Pacific Islands Ports: Country reports
Niue

State of the Environment Reports
Niue (1994; 5.43)

see also State of the Environment of the South Pacific 1983 (UNEP: 1983; 1.66mb)
see also State of the marine environment in the South Pacific Region (1990; 3.48mb)
see also State of the Environment of the South Pacific 2005 (2005; 382kb; see also ~ http://www.unescap.org/esd/environment/soe/2005/mainpub/ ~) 
see also Regional perspectives: Asia and the Pacific (UNEP, GEO-4. 2007; 382 kb)

see also the archive of SPREP Country Reports between 1980-1983 as follows:
Niue (1980; 308kb)

United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED: Brazil, 1992)
Country Reports : Niue (1991; 630kb)

The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED, 1992) and the Rio Declaration highlighted the need for sustainable development-socially responsible economic development that protects the resource base and the environment for the benefit of future generations. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which was one of the outcome instruments of the UNCED process, also highlights the need for conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components, and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources.

United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD)
National Reports: Niue 1 (2001; 53kb), Niue 2 (2001; 278kb), Niue 3 (2005; 796kb), Niue 4 (2010; 210kb)

see also Country profiles compiled by the Secretariat for the UNCBD.

see also: National Reports on Implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: First Regular National Report (2007) 
Niue (2010; 250kb)

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which was one of the outcome instruments of the UNCED process, highlights the need for conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components, and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources.

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (Land Degradation) (UNCCD)
First National Report: Niue [summary only] (2000; 12kb)

Second National Report: Niue (2002; 8.06mb)

Third National Report: Niue (2006; 514kb)

National Action Programmes (NAP) to combat land degradation 
Niue (2004; 1.44mb)

see also UNCCD Country Profiles:
Niue

see also UNCCD Reports clearinghouse mechanism

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification is an agreement to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought through national action programs that incorporate long-term strategies supported by international cooperation and partnership arrangements.

United Nations Development Programme Country Programme Action Plans [CPAP]: 
Niue (2008; 384kb)

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
(i) National Communications and In-depth Reviews
Niue (2000; 3.09mb)

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC,1992) is concerned with global warming and the consequent rise in sea levels that may result in the flooding of coastal areas, and submerging islands, which could adversely affect coastal communities. The treaty aims at reducing emissions of greenhouse gas in order to combat global warming. Although the treaty as originally framed set no mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions for individual nations and contained no enforcement provisions; it did include provisions for updates (called "protocols") that would set mandatory emission limits. The principal update is the Kyoto Protocol.

World Summit on Sustainable Development [Rio+10 - Johannesburg 2002]

National Assessment Reports: 
Niue (2002; 217kb)

Pacific WSSD Regional Assessment (2002; 91kb) and Pacific Position Paper (2004; 91kb)
see also: Synthesis Report for Asia and the Pacific (2001; 1.22mb)

The WSSD Plan of Implementation calls for the management of the natural resources base in a sustainable and integrated manner. In this regard, to reverse the current trend in natural resource degradation as soon as possible, it is necessary to implement strategies which should include targets adopted at the national and, where appropriate, regional levels to protect ecosystems and to achieve integrated management of land, water and living resources, while strengthening regional, national and local capacities.

The Johannesburg Declaration and the Plan of Implementation arising from the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD, 2002) reconfirmed the commitment of States to advance and strengthen the interdependent and mutually reinforcing pillars of sustainable development-economic development, social development and environmental protection-at the local, national, regional and global levels.

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Reports available online from the SPREP Library and IRC database
Reports available online from SOPAC [Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission] 
Reports available online from ReefBase Pacific

search also SPC Coastal and Oceanic Fisheries Digital Library
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Paradise lost [Niue]
- how the island nation Niue -- the smallest democracy in the world -- is relying on techniques new and old to save itself from climate change. This is a companion to the full NOW program "Paradise Lost," about global warming's effect on tiny islands in the South Pacific, an effect that is not hypothetical, but a catastrophic reality.

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Niue - govt. website

Niue - Meteorological Office

Academic literature and research

via Google Scholar
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