In The EmeraldPlanet global movement to identify, inform, and "link" the over 1,000 "best practices" highlights experts from related fields to share their best practices being implemented which can serve, even save, entire populations of the South Pacific island nations, ancient cultures, while creating road maps for future development by other nations well into the 21st Century and beyond.  This is the case of two [2] such leaders and pioneers with extensive experience working with multiple island nations in the South Pacific on how nations large and small can adapt to the increased pace of global climate change while methodically researching how to best improve environmental sustainability.  

The four segment program will document an exciting 10 years of scientific and empirical research spanning the remote tropical islands of the South Pacific and provides a story that is changing humanity.  Setting out is the year 2000, in the footsteps of the great explorer Charles Darwin, a young marine biologist determined to discover the potential of the world's last remaining uninhabited islands with pristine coral atolls ecosystems and their sacred indigenous protectors.  Erik Wilton Hagberg set his goal to find and activate these people and resources using sustainable methods of sea farming to yield new high quality organic proteins and medicines to support human existence. The result is a revolution in large scale natural aquaculture that has the potential for making the world a more adaptable place for human existence in the face of severe global climate change. This research and related pilot projects have the possibly of leveling the economic playing field for small developing nations by supplying the basic human needs of food, fuel, and fiber.

The problem is global climate change interrupting natural productive cycles and threatening the very existence of the special indigenous cultures.  Seal level rise is challenging the very habitability of their sacred and beautiful low-lying islands.  Salt water inundation due to increased storm intensity and sea level rise is killing crops and washing away the islands, homes, and lives of the people who inhabit them. Poor people in developing nations are starving because of drought, flood, sickness, and famine.  Sadly, these people are the least responsible for global climate change yet are the first to feel its effects, are the most vulnerable, and least equipped to adapt.

In response Mr. Hagberg in cooperation with the PanAmerica and PanAfrica Association, the EmeraldPlanet, the World Bank, United Nations, and major donor nations have assembled a band of brilliant minds in science, business, and international non-governmental diplomacy to combat these challenges.    Their model projects in the South Pacific "The Model Program to Combat Sea Level Rise" is comprised to develop proven and tested scientific methodology, full incorporation of indigenous knowledge, replicable global principles, and a key interface through the United Nations, the World Bank, and other multinational organizations where poorly represented indigenous communities can connect with international aid so the greater world community can contribute to and learn from these very island nations which are creating new sustainable methodologies.

The research and outcomes are already being recognized globally. At the forefront are the island nations of the Federated States of Micronesia, Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands, Tahiti (French Polynesia) , and Papua New Guinea. The following three organizations are contributing key leadership, institutional support, and the testing of emerging technologies. 

Pacific Aquaculture Cooperatives International mission is a global leader in the sustainable production, processing, and marketing of sea based food and protein for human consumption, raw organic materials, and bio-pharmaceutical treatments derived from the sea and tropical island environment. The company is achieving these results through it revolutionary methods of sea cucumber aquaculture.

The Global Coral Reef Initiatives headed by Dr. Thomas J. Goreau is an inventor and provider of the world's leading coral reef restoration technology. "BioRock" technology uses renewable energy sources to grow limestone over a steel aperture in sea water.  BioRock caused transplanted corals to grow two to six times faster than naturally and makes them up to 50 times more resilient to coral bleaching from high sea surface temperatures associated with sea level rise.  BioRock produces the only known substance to make marine installations grow stronger and thicker over time rather than corrode and decay.   Dr. Goreau is a leader in responsive action to Global Climate Change.  He has active BioRock installations in over 20 countries worldwide. 

The PanAmerican PanAfrican Association was established in 1968 by its founder Dr. Robert Starling Pritchard II,  Dr. Pritchard is a world renown author, publisher, researcher, musician, composer, community activist, humanitarian, and leader among Non Governmental Organizations at the United Nations. Now led by Henri Georges Polgar, the PaPa NGO maintains Consultative Status to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.  This organization is recognized as a founder of Black History Month in America, provides consultants to global interests and governments, organizes indigenous peoples representation to the United Nations, and has sustainable development coordinators operating under the premise of "Mutuality of Benefit" as it pertains to business, civil society, and diplomacy.