Fiji climate warriors call for Fossil Fuel Treaty ahead of climate meeting in Bonn
350.org Pacific Climate Warriors has encouraged more Pacific governments to back the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty ahead of the Bonn Climate Change Conference next...
Minister says FLNKS willing to discuss changes to election rolls
New Caledonia's pro-independence parties are prepared to negotiate changes to the provincial electoral rolls, according to the French interior minister Gerald Darmanin.
On his second...
Climate disasters have major consequences for informal economies
In the Pacific Islands and many developing and emerging countries worldwide, the informal economy far outsizes the formal one, playing a vital role in...
Samoa climb World Rugby Women’s rankings
Samoa are now the highest ranked of the Pacific Island nations after their thrilling 19-18 victory over Fiji in the final round of the...
Christian Lealiifano eyes shock Samoa World Cup selection
Cancer survivor Christian Lealiifano is close to penning another special chapter in his rollercoaster career with a 2023 Rugby World Cup appearance for Samoa.
The...
Mark Evans warns Wales and Australia before RWC as Fijian Drua make big strides
The challenge facing Warren Gatland’s Wales and the Wallabies under Eddie Jones at the Rugby World Cup has suddenly become even more daunting thanks...
Japan must abort nuclear waste disposal plan, says PNG MP
To commemorate World Environment Day, Papua New Guinea MP for Kundiawa Gembogl Muguwa Dilu is renewing calls for Japan to abort the plans to...
World must ‘work as one’ to end plastic pollution: Guterres
As international negotiators committed to hammering out a draft treaty by November on ending plastic pollution, the UN chief stressed in his message for...
Pacific voice loud and clear at plastic treaty negotiations in Paris
Q and A with Ambassador Ilana Seid, Permanent Representative of Palau to the UN and Chair of Pacific Small Island Developing States
Nearly 200...
Kiribati calls for a strong global commitment to upstream measures to solve the plastic crisis
Thirty-three coral atolls and islands are dispersed among the three groups that form Kiribati, which are the Gilbert, Line, and Phoenix islands. Covering a...
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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...