CLIMATE FINANCE

By Pita Ligaiula in Savusavu Pacific governments need to build transparency, accountability and anti-corruption safeguards into disaster preparedness before emergencies strike, the United Nations...

Fiji has called for climate finance to move from commitments to implementation, warning that Pacific island countries need funding at the scale, speed and...

By Pita Ligaiula in Savusavu Veteran Tongan journalist and Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) President Kalafi Moala says corruption in the Pacific is no...

By Pita Ligaiula in Savusavu The growing flow of climate and disaster finance into the Pacific must be matched by stronger accountability as complex...

By Pita Ligaiula The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has warned that climate finance will mean little for the Pacific unless projects are delivered, citing...

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are calling for simpler access to climate and biodiversity finance, more grant and concessional funding and greater investment in...

By Pita Ligaiula The Green Climate Fund (GCF) says half of its climate finance is directed to adaptation, but Executive Director Mafalda Duarte acknowledges the...

By Pita Ligaiula in Koror, Palau Pacific countries should expect faster Green Climate Fund approvals, more national and regional institutions accessing funding directly and a...

By Pita Ligaiula in Koror, Palau Pacific communities will not fully benefit from growing climate finance unless governments, development agencies and project leaders are...