Winston Peters and Shane Reti make Cook Islands climate change announcement
Tackling the impacts of climate change is a key focus for New Zealand, with a total of $16.5 million (US$10 million) to go to...
The Cook Islands, on the cusp of making conservation history for the Pacific Islands...
Dedicated towards conserving Cook Islands biodiversity, the island nation is applying for the Takitumu Conservation Area to be recognised as an ‘Other Effective area-based...
Climate envoy for the Marshall Islands Tina Stege: We put our heart and soul...
Climate envoy for the Marshall Islands says financing must be prioritised to protect the world’s most vulnerable countries
The Marshall Islands may be a small...
Heart of Pacific climate mobility adaption, not relocation
By Richard Musgrove
Pacific islanders have been on the move for 50,000 years, as explorers, as settlers and as traders.
But now that cultural phenomenon...
GEF Council approves US$916 million for urgent environmental action
The Global Environment Facility’s 186 member governments on Monday allocated US$916 million for international action on biodiversity, climate change, nature renewal, and pollution control,...
Tonga signs Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement
Tonga becomes the 85th country to sign the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement to protect two-thirds of our ocean, or the Agreement under...
Pacific countries go back to the drawing board ahead of next round of plastics...
Fourteen Pacific countries advocating for the priorities of their communities at the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to develop an international legally binding instrument on...
Atoll nations, predicted to sink, have kept pace with sea-level rise
For an attention-grabbing speech to the 2022 UN climate conference, a Tuvalu cabinet minister stood on one of atoll nation’s smallest islands and predicted...
France welcomes the UN General Assembly’s adoption of the resolution concerning the Ocean Conference
France welcomes the UN General Assembly’s adoption on 18 December of the resolution it introduced with Costa Rica establishing the terms of the third...
COP28 adopts ‘UAE consensus’ paving the way for fossil fuel transition
By Pita Ligaiula at COP28 in Dubai, UAE
The President of COP28 Sultan Al Jaber has announced that participating parties have endorsed the ‘UAE Consensus’...
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China steps up efforts to win Palau but President Whipps says he won’t cave...
Beijing has been dangling lures in a bid to convince Palau to sever ties with Taiwan and switch to China, President Surangel Whipps Jr...
Solomon Islands election yields no majority for pro-China party
Neither advocates nor opponents of a security pact with Beijing won a majority in the Solomon Islands' parliamentary elections, results announced Wednesday for the...
UN chief calls for all hands on deck at Climate Promise 2025 launch
Top UN officials launched a fresh global campaign to tackle the climate emergency on Tuesday, with social media influencers, Indigenous leaders and corporate giants...