“We’re not lying down,” Tuvalu as PSIDS Chair, highlights Pacific leadership in climate action,...
Pacific island countries might be amongst the hardest hit by climate change impacts but Pacific communities are not lying down.
Tuvalu, one of the smallest...
Palau, as Chair of AOSIS, urges ‘COP of truth’ to act with urgency, solidarity
World leaders and delegates attending the ongoing 30th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), dubbed by the...
Hour for climate action is upon us, Solomon Islands at COP30
While heavy downpour belted the roof of the Hangar Convention Centre, Belem, with the sound of thunder roaring through the auditorium, Polycarp Paea, Minister...
‘We’re not giving up. I appeal to this process not to give up on...
In the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI), and in most Pacific countries, it is customary that when a child is born, the umbilical cord...
Türkiye maintains COP31 bid as Australia rejects co-hosting proposal
Türkiye is continuing its bid to host next year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP31) as tensions persist with Australia over which country will be...
Nations hit by natural disasters tell ministers at climate talks to act
Battered by last month’s ferocious climate-fueled hurricane, Jamaica joined other small island nations and impoverished countries at Monday’s United Nations climate talks to implore...
Albanese puts deals with Vanuatu and Fiji next on the agenda
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is moving to lock in a security pact with Fiji, as well as resuscitate a security deal with Vanuatu...
France to support Solomon Islands in ocean security
The French Government will assist Solomon Islands in combating drug trafficking, illegal fishing and demining operations in the country’s waters.
French Ambassador to the...
No time for tactical delays as COP30 enters final stretch: UN climate Chief ...
UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell has told world leaders at COP30 that negotiations must accelerate immediately, warning that slow progress in the...
‘When finance flows, ambition grows’: COP30’s call for action
In Belém, Brazil, as the world turns its eyes to the Amazon where COP30 has been underway for the past week, one question looms...
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Vanuatu Trade Minister steps down, New Minister appointed amid value addition fund concerns
Vanuatu's Minister for Trade and Industry, Samson Samsen, has stepped down following public concern over the administration of the Value Addition Funds, with Prime...
Solomon Islands advances environment and climate law reforms
The Solomon Islands Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Meteorology (MECDM) has continued consultations with the Prime Minister's Office Legislative and Policy...
From a classroom in Vanuatu to the world’s highest court: How Pacific students changed...
Six years ago, a group of 27 University of the South Pacific law students in Vanuatu asked what many believed was an impossible question.
Could...