Australia aims to host 2026 UN climate summit
Australia hopes to host the 2026 COP summit, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Saturday, seeking to overhaul his country's reputation for foot-dragging on climate...
No safe place’: Kiribati seeks donors to raise islands from encroaching seas
Developing countries vulnerable to the worst ravages of global heating have spent the past week at United Nations climate talks urging more support from...
Australia’s climate policies don’t match its big talk at COP27
By Praveen Menon
Australia is talking up its green credentials at the annual U.N. climate summit, but its policies do not match the portrayal as...
Stand and deliver’, urges UN Secretary-General as divides threaten COP27 negotiations ahead of deadline
COP27 is scheduled to wrap up in 24 hours but countries remain divided on several significant issues including ‘loss and damage’, the UN Secretary-General...
Parties predicting a failure of COP27 without a loss and damage finance facility
By Makereta Komai, PACNEWS Editor in Sharm El Sheikh
As negotiators scramble to finalise a global climate change pact text before COP27 ends on...
Traditional knowledge must be recognised and mainstreamed into national policies, says Minister Regenvanu
By Makereta Komai, PACNEWS Editor in Sharm El Sheikh
An initiative to document and preserve the unique languages, customs and culture of the people...
New Zealand appeals to world leaders to progress loss and damage at COP27
By Makereta Komai, PACNEWS Editor in Sharm El Sheikh
New Zealand has used its statement at the COP27 High-Level Session to appeal to 196...
Australia told to end new fossil fuel subsidies if it wants Pacific support to...
Australia must stop subsidising new fossil fuel developments if it is to win a key Pacific nation’s support for its plan to co-host a...
As incoming Chair of AOSIS, Samoa lays the groundwork at COP27, shares its vision
Samoa will assume the Chairmanship role of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) from 1 January 2023 for a period of two years.
Samoa’s...
We can’t agree to anything less than the establishment of a Loss and Damage...
As COP27 winds down in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, the Solomon Islands has added its voice to last minute desperate pleas to the COP Presidency,...
Latest article
U.S to link Pacific drug investigations with South Asia crime networks
The United States is looking to connect its law enforcement operations in the Pacific with expertise and investigations in South Asia as criminal networks...
Fiji should retain immunity for 1987 and 2006 coups says Deputy DPP Rabuku
Fiji should retain the immunity provisions covering the 1987 and 2006 coups because they were guarantees made to the coup leaders in exchange for...
U.S links Pacific drug trade to Latin American networks
The United States says Latin American drug trafficking networks are increasingly using contacts and distributors in Pacific Island countries to move and sell illicit...