UN chief attacks Australia climate approach
The United Nations secretary-general says Australia and other countries intent on increasing fossil fuel production are dangerous radicals.
Antonio Guterres made the comment while launching...
UN climate report: It’s ‘now or never’ to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees
A new flagship UN report on climate change out Monday indicating that harmful carbon emissions from 2010-2019 have never been higher in human history,...
SPREP’s new Director General Sefanaia Nawadra takes office
A new dawn at the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) starts this week with the organisation welcoming its new Director General.
Sefanaia...
Scientists urge end to fossil fuel use as landmark IPCC report readied
The world must abandon fossil fuels as a matter of urgency, rather than entrusting the future climate to untried “techno-fixes” such as sucking carbon...
UN rights body appoints Tuvalu negotiator as climate change expert
The UN top rights body appointed an expert on climate change and human rights for the first time on Friday, a move that is...
Scientists to set sail for Tonga to map sea floor following eruption
NIWA scientists are sailing to Tonga next week to survey the ocean around the Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai volcano after the devastating eruption in January.
Thousands of...
SPREP farewells Kosi Latu as Director General
Commemorating over a decade of achievements made, the staff of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) had a special virtual farewell...
To protect vast area of Pacific Ocean from seabed mining, International body should strengthen...
By Megan Jungwiwattanaporn
KINGSTON, 31 MARCH 2022 (PEW TRUST) --- Seabed mining operations are likely to have impacts beyond the area of a specific...
New Zealand giving ‘green light’ to sea bed mining in ungoverned Pacific waters
The New Zealand Government is being accused of taking a weak stance at an international meeting to finalise the rules for mining the deep...
Moving away from coal ‘will not be easy’ but it is essential for our...
The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General on Monday called on countries in Asia and the Pacific to speed up the shift from fossil fuels to...