NZ Government’s new climate funding plan for Pacific
-With Pacific nations facing some of the worst effects of climate change in the world, New Zealand is preparing to change the way it...
Governments vet crucial UN climate science report
Diplomats from nearly 200 nations and top climate scientists began a week-long huddle in Switzerland on Monday to distil nearly a decade of published...
Navigating climate change: Kiribati’s efforts to address sea-level rise
Interview with Tion Uriam, national coordinator for hydrography and charting, Kiribati
By Wim van Wegen
The impacts of climate change and sea-level rise on daily...
Pacific Leaders meet in Port Vila to discuss pathways for a global just transition...
The Governments of Vanuatu and Tuvalu will host the ‘2nd Pacific Ministerial Dialogue on Pathways for the Global Just Transition away from Fossil Fuels’...
Sticking to ‘cold, hard’ climate facts can end global warming: UN SG Guterres
-World leaders need to listen to and act on solid scientific guidance to urgently reduce global warming, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in...
Nature-based Solutions project to boost climate resilience in Fiji
The Nature-based Solution (NbS) grant funding of EUR326,077 (FJD$700,000) signed Monday in Suva will go towards the rehabilitation of six project sites in Fiji.
“This...
“We’re survivors:” Marshall Islands leaders look to Hawaii for adapting to climate change crisis
Within the next 40 years, the Marshall Islands will cease to exist.
That’s according to the Kwajalein Atoll Sustainability Laboratory (KASL), citing U.S Department of...
Pacific amplifies SIDS voices at global climate finance dialogue
The Pacific region was well represented at the UNFCCC 5th Technical Expert Dialogues (TED) Under the Ad Hoc Work Program on the New Collective...
Vanuatu twin cyclones underscore the Pacific’s vulnerability to compounding climate-disaster risks
ESCAP expert opinion piece by Sanjay Srivastava, Chief, Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Sudip...
Climate crisis, pandemic, market isolation keeping Tuvalu on LDC list says PM Natano
Tuvalu Prime Minister Kausea Natano has asked a global conference on the world’s least developed countries for indexing that highlights vulnerability to climate as...
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U.S State Department eliminates office that oversees climate talks
The U.S State Department is eliminating the Office of Global Change, which oversees international climate change negotiations for the United States.
Staff were told about...
Prabowo outlines food sufficiency goal, invites young Fijians to pursue education in Indonesia
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto shared the Indonesian government's vision for realising food self-sufficiency and boosting food crop production during a meeting with Fiji Prime...
U.S President Trump signs executive order boosting deep-sea mining industry
U.S President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at boosting the deep-sea mining industry, the latest attempt to boost U.S production...