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Tuvalu's Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Home Affairs, Maina Talia urged the global community to prioritise climate change as the most significant threat facing Tuvalu and other Pacific Island developing states. In a press conference at the start of the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting on Monday, Minister Talia emphasised the urgent need for immediate and decisive action to...

Australia and Tuvalu will announce their trailblazing treaty, the Falepili Union, has entered into force on the sidelines of the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Tonga. Anthony Albanese and Feleti Teo will hold a press conference later on Wednesday to mark the occasion, the Tuvalu prime minister confirmed to AAP. “Yes, we have indicated on both sides readiness to ratify...

New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has talked down the impact of emissions on climate change at the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting. The Kiwi foreign minister also cast doubt over whether NZ would continue to offer generous climate finance when the current budget runs out next year. Peters was a sole voice downplaying the climate crisis on the same...

A Nauru-backed company will forge ahead with contentious plans to start industrial deep-sea mining in 2026, a top executive has told AFP, vowing to overcome environmental criticisms that have dogged the project. Canada-based The Metals Company is leading a contentious push to mine the sea floor underneath the Pacific Ocean, hoovering up lumps of rock studded with coveted metals. Through a...

A newly released report identified that accelerated sea level rise in the Pacific is alarmingly above the global average. As the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo launched the World Meteorological Organisation State of the Climate in the South-West Pacific 2023 report, hundreds of Pacific island youth took to the streets of Nuku’alofa today with the...

By Sera Sefeti in Nuku'alofa, Tonga In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, about 100 miles from Tonga, the winds began to intensify. Sail master Ivanancy Vunikura was helping lead the Uto ni Yalo, a vessel that had set off from Fiji days before. “The weather completely changed; the waves went up to four-metre swells and the wind went up to...

The call for side events is out now for the Moana Blue Pacific Pavilion at the COP29 in November this year. Moana Blue Pacific at the twenty-ninth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) is a Pacific partnership with the Governments of New Zealand and Australia managed by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional...

Former South Sydney coach Jason Demetriou is back in work, agreeing to become head coach of the Kumuls, the Papua New Guinea national team. Demetriou left the Rabbitohs in April following several heavy defeats. It was a disappointing end to his first head coaching role in the NRL having led the Rabbitohs to the preliminary final in his debut 2022...

Team Pacific will have seven women and six men - the highest number of Paralympians - competing at the 2024 Paralympics. The 13 athletes will represent six Pacific nations in taekwondo and athletics. The Paralympics will have 4400 athletes from 160 countries competing in Paris. Each Paralympic sport has its own system of classification, which helps to ensure fair and equal competition....

By Selita Bolanavanua Executive Director of Femlink Pacific, Fay Volatabu is urging political party leaders to provide support for women. She highlighted that Fiji lacks a general quota or reserved seats in Parliament for women, placing the responsibility on political parties to nominate female candidates. “Political parties, please, you have a role to play. Let’s talk about breaking barriers and increasing female...