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UN Climate Change Executive Secretary, Simon Stiell Tuesday urged world leaders at the COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan to view the climate crisis not just as a future problem but as an economic threat hitting right now. Stiell highlighted that climate impacts are carving up to 5 percent off GDP in many countries, warning that failing to act will supercharge inflation...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on Tuesday for countries to step up contributions to a financial mechanism to assist developing countries affected by climate change. Guterres made the appeal in remarks to a high-level dialogue on loss and damage funding during the COP29 UN climate change conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. “In an era of climate extremes, loss and damage finance is...

Pacific Island youth leaders say the stakes couldn't be higher at this year's United Nations climate summit. Even as Donald Trump threatens to pull out of the Paris climate agreement for a second time, world leaders meeting in Azerbaijan for COP29 have to decide on a new climate finance goal. Fifteen years after the last target was set, the new deal...

Commonwealth countries must unite and use their collective voice to demand that climate finance promises are kept preventing human suffering, the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Patricia Scotland said at COP29 in Baku Tuesday. At an event to highlight the upcoming launch of the Pacific Resilience Facility (PRF), the Secretary-General said that Commonwealth member states would continue to support the region in its...

Pacific Leaders and youth called on the world to commit to funding for the Pacific-led, owned and managed initiative, the Pacific Resilience Facility (PRF). This was shared during the side event on “Rethinking Climate Finance: The Pacific Resilience Facility” at the Moana Blue Pacific Pavilion at COP29 in Baku. Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General Baron Waqa said that the Pacific is...

The Prime Minister of Tuvalu, Feleti Teo and his Climate Change and the Environment Minister, Dr Maina Talia, are at COP29 to advocate for a more just climate finance system for Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Starting this week, COP29, billed as a ‘Finance COP’, intends to set the future direction of international climate finance and to facilitate the negotiations...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday that leaders gathered in Baku for the COP29 Climate Action Summit must take immediate steps to cut emissions, safeguard people from climate chaos, and “tear down the walls to climate finance” in response to the “masterclass in climate destruction” that the world has witnessed in 2024. “The sound you hear is the ticking...

By Professor Ben Newell and Dr Wesley Morgan An announcement about who will host the 2026 UN climate summit is expected during COP29 discussions in Baku, Azerbaijan. Australia is in the box seat to co-host COP31 with Pacific Island countries. Looming over the talks and the future of climate action as a whole is the impending return of Donald Trump as U.S...

For decades, there was an understood hierarchy in men's rugby league that went something like: Australia, New Zealand, England, a bit of daylight, then everyone else. That was borne out in the international results, with the Kangaroos, Kiwis or Brits the only teams to feature in World Cup finals from 1970 to 2017. Australia, England and New Zealand are currently...

Rugby league officials must decide whether to host next year's Tonga-Samoa blockbuster at Accor Stadium, in a bid to push for the biggest Test crowd in Australia in 50 years. Sunday's Pacific Championships finals at nearby CommBank Stadium drew a sold-out crowd of 28,728, with Australia's 20-14 win coming in front of a passionate pro-Tonga crowd. The results mean Tonga, New...