Hawaiians look to tradition to cope with Climate change
Hawaii faces a range of environmental problems caused by global warming, impacts worsened by practices that critics say have ignored the local ecology.
They say...
EU calls for climate action
The Ambassador of the European Union in the Pacific, Sujiro Seam, has called on major emitters to be more ambitious in their reduction of...
Country that could vanish from the map as sea levels rise
The runway of the capital city’s airport jostles for space among the homes crammed around it, which themselves make way for two of the...
$14-million climate change funding support to benefits Pacific Islands
Pacific Countries will be benefiting from a $14-million (US$9.7 million) climate change funding support from the New Zealand government.
The five-year funding assistance will help...
Pacific Forum leaders set permanent maritime borders, as rising seas shrink islands
Pacific island leaders have agreed that their maritime borders should be permanent, even if their countries shrink due to a future rise in sea...
‘Bad neighbours’: Australia at risk of becoming ‘global pariah’
Australia is already considered a “bad neighbour” and will become a “pariah” if the federal government does not move past its long-running climate policy...
51st Pacific Islands Forum Communique
The Fifty-First Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Retreat was held virtually on 06 August 2021, and was attended by the Heads of State, Government, and...
Newly released IPCC report confirms grave risks in a warming world: SPREP
Our future got much bleaker with the release of the first report in the sixth series from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...
Fiji calls on Australia to ‘walk the talk’ by adopting more ambitious emissions targets
The Fijian government says it hopes “everybody can get on board” with a low carbon future, as pressure mounts on Australia to adopt stronger...
Fiji calls for action on latest climate report
Human activity is changing the climate in unprecedented and irreversible ways.
This is highlighted in the latest report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
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Climate finance, Just Transition top agenda as World faces 1.5 overhoot
Climate finance, adaptation and the transition away from fossil fuels will dominate negotiations at COP31 in Türkiye, as developing countries demand greater access to...
Vanuatu Parliament to debate no-confidence motion on Monday
Vanuatu Parliament will debate the no-confidence motion against the Prime Minister (PM) Jotham Napat on Monday next week, after Speaker Felix Stephen confirmed that...
Put the ocean at the centre of COP31
By Peter Thomson
For over 30 years, Pacific island countries have issued the same warning at the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference: the warming...