After COVID-19 challenges, parties to Noumea Convention strengthen resolve to protect Pacific’s natural resources...
The almost full attendance by parties of the first face-to-face meeting of the Noumea Convention, since 2019 when COVID-19 hit and devastated communities around...
Migration, evidence and climate change in the Pacific
By Colette Mortreux, University of Melbourne
There has been much discussion about the impacts of climate change on migration, with calls that the world is...
Fukushima water release a volatile mix of politics and science
By Scott Foster
The release of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean by Tokyo Electric Power Company...
Endless fallout: The Pacific idyll still facing nuclear blight 77 years on
The film Oppenheimer has shone a global spotlight on the dawn of U.S nuclear weapons tests. In the Marshall Islands, where 23 of those...
For the Melanesian Spearhead Group, West Papua Presents a Challenge
West Papua’s independence movement again failed to obtain MSG membership, highlighting members’ competing strategic interests.
By Grant Wyeth
Last week the 22nd Melanesian Spearhead Group...
We cannot support the discharge of treated water into the ocean with serious concerns...
On 22 August 2023, the Japanese government decided to discharge treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the ocean, and the...
Melanesian leadership failure to stand by ULMWP is a ‘travesty’
Analysis by David Robie
The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) has thrown away a golden chance for achieving a historical step towards justice and peace in...
The Fukushima Decision: A Betrayal to the Pacific Trust
By Dr Transform Aqorau
The recent announcement from the Japanese government, sanctioning the discharge of recycled waste from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the...
Alternatives to dumping Fukushima wastewater into the Pacific
Robert Richmond, University of Hawaii
Japan plans to dump treated, radioactively contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific but it could...
Weaving new strands to strengthen the Pacific’s school leadership standards
Representatives from 15 Pacific Island countries revisited and restructured the Regional School Leadership Standards at the regional summit convened by the Pacific Community’s (SPC)...
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Sea level rise could redefine sovereignty, but Pacific leaders are pushing back
Sea level rise is no longer just an environmental crisis for the Pacific; it is a legal challenge striking at the heart of sovereignty,...
Tonga launches e-passport project to boost security
The Kingdom of Tonga has officially begun its e-passport journey.
Tonga convened the inaugural Project Steering Committee (PSC) meeting for the Tonga e-passport Project, a...
Trust and cooperation needed for Pacific Climate action
Climate mobility processes will attract greater support if it is recognised as a security and stability concern.
Participants at a regional workshop in Fiji heard...