From November 21 to 30, the China-Pacific Island Countries Climate Action Advanced Training Course was held, and scientific researchers of the SIO gave online lectures to national functional departments, front-line technicians and professional researchers in universities and colleges from Pacific island countries such as Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa. The training course was hosted by the China-Pacific Island Countries Climate Action Cooperation Center. The SIO participated in the course setting, student recruitment and expert teaching. Chen Jianfang, Deputy Director of the SIO, delivered a speech at the opening ceremony.

In this training course, ten thematic courses were carefully designed focusing on the facts and risk assessment of climate change, strategies for coping with climate change, ocean observation and services, and case studies of China-Pacific Island Countries Climate Action. Researcher Wang Yuntao of the SIO gave a special lecture on “Marine Observation System and Simulation Prediction to Ensure Marine Ecological Health”, and introduced the role of marine observation and simulation prediction in understanding and protecting the ocean, as well as the development history of China’s marine observation technology and simulation prediction, and China’s great contributions to marine ecological environment protection. Researcher Zhang Huaguo and Assistant Researcher Cao Wenting jointly made a special report on “Capacity Building of Remote Sensing Monitoring of Marine and Coastal Ecosystems in Pacific Island Countries”, and systematically introduced the progress of China’s autonomous satellites in remote sensing monitoring capacity building of marine, coastal and benthic ecosystems and disaster emergency response in Pacific island countries from China’s autonomous satellite remote sensing monitoring capacity and the demonstration application of remote sensing monitoring in Pacific island countries.

The SIO has a long history of cooperation with Pacific island countries and has frequently interacted with Fiji, Vanuatu, the Federated States of Micronesia and other Pacific island countries. Since 2020, the State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics of the SIO has led the implementation of the Equatorial Western Pacific Comprehensive Observation Program (TPOS), and further cooperated with relevant island countries to strengthen marine environmental observation. In 2022, the SIO, in cooperation with the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), undertook the project of “Monitoring and Capacity Building of Typical Elements of Marine and Coastal Ecological Environment in Pacific Island Countries”, providing remote sensing emergency monitoring services for four major disasters (the Tonga Volcano eruption, the Vanuatu tropical storm, the Papua New Guinea earthquake and the Solomon Islands earthquake), and provided a total of 6 monitoring reports to the International Charter Space and Major Disasters (Charter) and the Secretariat of the SPREP, which has received positive responses and thanks from foreign partners.