Journey to COP27: Pacific Women negotiators state their case for 1.5 world
Pacific women negotiators at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (UNFCCC COP) are adamant about what they want...
Pacific faces perfect storm of climate change and debt says report
The Pacific region is facing a perfect storm of climate change-induced disasters and debt burdens according to a new report.
After the pandemic and international...
Disaster risk reduction: Only half the world equipped with adequate early warning systems
A new report from the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) published on Thursday, warns that half...
Sea-level rise ‘may cross two metres by 2100’
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) recommends raising to two metres, instead of the existing one metre, the imaginary waterline demarcation for projects in the...
COP27: Pacific activists will push for loss and damage fund for grassroots communities
Pacific climate change activists will be pushing for the establishment of a Loss and Damage funding facility at the UN's annual climate change summit...
As oceans rise, are some nations doomed to vanish?
If rising seas engulf the Maldives and Tuvalu, will those countries be wiped off the map? And what happens to their citizens?
The prospect is...
World leaders not invited to attend critical UN biodiversity summit
Heads of government haven’t been invited to attend an important biodiversity summit in Canada, raising concerns nature is slipping down the global agenda amid...
Journey to COP27: Pacific negotiators strengthen resolve to fight for 1.5 world
Pacific delegates are counting down to the UNFCCC COP27 in the city of Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, keen to negotiate positions on the different thematic...
Egypt urged to ensure civil society’s full participation in COP27 climate summit
Authorities in Egypt must ensure civil society can safely and fully participate in the COP27 UN climate change conference taking place there next month,...
Fighting off the bulldozers in the sacred kwila forests of Papua New Guinea
By Jo Chandler
In mid-May, a bulldozer began clearing a logging road into an area of largely untouched rainforest near the village of Suburam,...
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Tonga police see crime growing more regional and digital
Tonga’s criminal threat landscape has changed fast, and Acting Chief Superintendent Selosia Fatukala-Satini says the shift is forcing police to rethink how they work.
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Climate, migration and leadership rise to the top of Pacific’s 2050 agenda
The Pacific Islands Forum is translating its 2050 Strategy into a more concrete set of priorities focused on climate resilience, regional mobility and leadership...
Forum Economic Ministers to address global risks and regional resilience
Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Economic and Finance Ministers will convene in Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Island (RMI)s, on 23 and 24 June 2026...