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By Pita Ligaiula at COP28 in Dubai, UAE Palau’s climate change negotiator and Chair of Pacific Small Island Developing States(PSIDS), Xavier Matsutaro has emphasised the critical need for ambition and urgency at COP28, underscoring the pivotal role of emission reduction in the ongoing global climate negotiations. “If I can sum it up into one word, it's ambition, and call it...

By Pita Ligaiula at COP28 in Dubai, UAE Niue's Minister for Natural Resources, Mona Ainu’u, has issued a powerful call to both the United States and Australia for stronger commitments in climate action and collaboration in the face of pressing challenges in the Pacific. Minister Ainu’u, who extensively collaborates with the United States in the fishery sector and climate change...

By Pita Ligaiula at COP28 in Dubai, UAE Pacific Island Forum Climate Youth Champion, Metoyer Lohia calls for genuine youth participation, and urges global leaders, including U.S President Joe Biden, to prioritise finance and capacity building for climate action. When asked about her motivation for participating in COP28, Lohia highlighted the power of collective impact. “If we make a bigger number...

By Pita Ligaiula at COP28 in Dubai, UAE Pacific Gender Champion and Niue's Minister for Natural Resources, Mona Ainu’u, has delivered a passionate call for stronger female representation and accountability at COP28, emphasising the urgent need for positive outcomes in climate action. Speaking on an online briefing with Pacific Media ahead of the start of COP28 in Dubai, Ainu’u shared her...

Pacific nations including those bearing the brunt of the global climate crisis are coming to the COP 28 in UAE this week ready for “more action, more ambition and more urgency for an outcome that gets the world back on track,” says Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General, Henry Puna. The 28th UNFCCC global climate negotiations are drawing record crowds and...

Despite contributing very little to the causes of climate change, Pacific communities are at the immediate forefront of impacts of the escalating climate crisis. For this reason, Pacific leaders have declared a climate emergency for the region and continue to advocate for much stronger global ambition to keep 1.5C alive, a robust Global Stocktake (GST) to bring course correction, the...

Stories from the Pacific’s journey at COP28 in Dubai will be told and shared to audiences in 13 Pacific countries over the next two weeks, thanks to a partnership between the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the Pacific Cooperation Broadcasting Limited (PCBL), better known as Pasifika TV. The Pasifika TV Media team has touched down in...

Op-ed from UN Climate Change Executive Secretary, Simon Stiell Over the last couple of years’ inflation has caused a cost-of-living crisis across large parts of the world. Some fear-mongeres have used the hardship this has caused billions of people to propagate rhetoric that climate change action is unaffordable and running against the interests of ordinary people. Nothing could be...

Businesses, investors, cities, states and regions are stepping up to take climate action in greater numbers than ever before – just not at the pace or scale needed to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to the 2023 edition of the Yearbook of Global Climate Action released at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) today. “Climate action...

The Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Simon Stiell has added his voice to that of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) from the Pacific, Caribbean, African, Indian Ocean and South China Seas, who are members of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), calling for decisive action from world leaders at COP28. “COP28 is our...