Niue takes ocean conservation agenda to COP31
Niue Prime Minister Dalton Tagelagi has called for sustainable and predictable financing to support long-term ocean protection, as the Pacific nation opened its COP31...
Fijian Drua unveil development squad for 2027
The Fijian Drua has named a 20-member Development and Next Gen squad for 2027, providing some of Fiji’s most promising young rugby players with...
El Niño’s $11 trillion price tag, ‘Exceptional’ extreme temperatures to continue into next year, UN reports
The El Niño extreme weather pattern could cost the global economy up to US$11 trillion and seriously impact food security, said the UN agency...
COP31 Pacific home, the Moana Blue Pacific Pavilion launched in Antalya
The Pacific has opened its home at the 31st United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31), with the official launch of the Moana Blue Pacific...
An Outer-Island Budget Promise Must Survive the Boat Journey
By Douglas Vandergraph
A government announcement made in South Tarawa may sound complete when the words leave a microphone. For a family on an outer...
Spirit of talanoa’ called upon as COP31 opens in Türkiye
A hundred and ninety-eight parties attending the 31st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Antalya, Türkiye,...
UN Climate chief Stiell warns climate crisis is now a global health emergency
The climate crisis has become a global health emergency of pandemic proportions, with extreme heat, pollution and climate disasters threatening lives and overwhelming health...
WMO warns 2027 could break global temperature records as super El Niño intensifies
The developing super El Niño could push global temperatures to another record high in 2027, with the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) warning that the...
Climate change killing more than three million people annually, Wellcome warns
More than three million people die each year from fossil fuel-related air pollution and extreme heat, with climate change increasingly threatening human health, livelihoods...
COP31 must deliver climate action as Pacific faces worsening El Niño impacts
Pacific Island nations facing worsening climate impacts cannot afford further delays in global climate action, with 350.org warning that COP31 must deliver urgent commitments...
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COP31 President of Negotiations Bowen warns only 0.2 percent of climate adaptation finance reaches...
Pacific Island countries are receiving just 0.2 percent of global climate finance for adaptation, a figure COP31 President of Negotiations Chris Bowen says must...
Pacific Ocean monitoring at risk as climate observation gaps threaten El Niño tracking
Gaps in ocean monitoring across the western Pacific are threatening the region’s ability to track and predict climate events such as El Niño, prompting...
GCF urges world to follow Solomon Islands’ lead on climate finance
Green Climate Fund (GCF) Executive Director Mafalda Duarte has challenged countries to follow Solomon Islands' lead in supporting global climate finance, describing its US$400,000...