Tonga wins 2023 Pacific Invasive Species Battler of the Year Award
National Invasive Species Coordinator of the Tonga Ministry of Meteorology, Energy, Information, Disaster Management, Environment, Climate Change and Communications (MEIDECC), Viliami Hakaumotu and has...
A New Pacific Diplomacy for COP28
This year’s COP 28 is of particular importance because of the first Global Stocktake (GST) of the Paris Agreement. The GST will show how...
PCC at COP28: Advocating for Phasing Out of Fossil Fuels, Funding for Loss and...
By James Bhagwan
For the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC), the ecumenical alliance for the Pacific region, it was a very difficult decision to go...
PACRES project builds capacity of Pacific media to cover climate change negotiations
A factsheets kit to assist the Pacific media report on the ongoing UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP)...
Pacific Civil Society: A historic outcome mired by aspirational rhetoric
As the 52nd Pacific Islands Forum Leader’s Meeting concludes in the Cook Islands, the 2023 Leader’s Communique offers us great insight as to what...
Fifty second Pacific Islands Forum communique
The Fifty-Second (52nd) Pacific Islands Forum was held in Rarotonga, Cook Islands from 6 – 10 November 2023, and was attended by the Heads...
Forum wants action on climate finance and Loss and Damage
By Nic Maclellan in Rarotonga, Cook Islands
As the region faces an El Nino summer and Vanuatu reels from the devastation of Cyclone Lola...
Australia’s bid to host climate talks is welcome but its words must be matched...
By Ralph Regenvanu
The Pacific Islands Forum this week will bring together nations who share what we call the Blue Pacific Continent, stretching from...
Pacific Partnership 2023 Returns to Fiji
Pacific Partnership has returned to Fiji to conduct the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific, 31...
Tackling climate mis/disinformation: ‘An urgent frontier for action’
Climate impacts are accelerating with every fraction of a degree of global warming, yet denial, distortion and falsehoods about well-established scientific facts are flooding...
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Concerns over voter access raised as New Caledonia’s municipal elections highlight turnout gaps
Concerns over voter access and representation have emerged following municipal elections in New Caledonia, as second-round results confirmed a widening political divide between urban...
Kiribati makes bid for UN women’s body, pushes Pacific voice in global stage
Kiribati has formally entered the race for a seat on a key United Nations body, with its minister declaring the Pacific is ready to...
Samoa pushes $100 million dam project, seel global bidders ahead of 2026 roadshow
Samoa is moving ahead with a major infrastructure project aimed at flood control, water security and renewable energy, with officials opening early engagement with...