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Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has defended his governments decision to enforce the mandatory administration of the COVID-19 vaccine. Speaking during his weekly nationwide address the Prime Minister said that the country is faced with an imminent threat, and his government is taking decisive steps to address this threat. “We face one of the most dangerous variants of COVID-19 that...

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate (IPCC) Working Group 1 report this week confirms what the Blue Pacific already knows to be true – our planet is in the throes of a human-induced climate crisis, and we have lost the luxury of time says Forum Secretary General Henry Puna. “On the current trajectory, we are on track to exceed the...

Fiji warns of “possible loss of entire countries within century” if global warming continues. The sixth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released on Monday, is “very alarming,” said Fiji’s Ambassador to the UN, Satyendra Prasad. “It is discovered that It exceeds everything we thought the estimates were. It presents some of the catastrophic scenarios, which...

Island nations across the world are warning that they face catastrophic consequences of rising sea levels and possible extinction, after a landmark UN report warned of the effects of a warming world. An alliance of 39 coastal and low-lying nations said the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report was a "major alert for the world" and called on more powerful...

Fiji has recorded 264 new cases of COVID-19 and 10 new deaths Tuesday, increasing the total number of cases to 37,776 and 325 deaths since the outbreak in April. Permanent secretary for Health, Dr James Fong said 131 cases are from the Western division and 133 cases are from the Central division in Vitilevu, Fiji's main island. Dr Fong said there...

By Mark Howden and Morgan Wairiu A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) finds that the world may warm by 1.5°C by the early 2030s, much earlier than previously estimated. It’s terrible news for the Pacific. With temperatures rising above 1.5°C, Pacific communities are likely to experience increasingly devastating climate change impacts. The key takeaway from...

The Pacific's coral reef systems and coastal fisheries are set for extinction if wealthy nations don't drastically and immediately cut greenhouse gas emissions. An Intergovernmetal Panel on Climate Change report released Monday night pegs temperatures hitting as much as 3.9 degrees above industrial times, twice the 1.5 degree target. Anything above 2 degrees is viewed as a death-knell in the Pacific. A...

The latest report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has prompted one of the co-authors to warn that it represents a looming line in the sand for the Pacific. Without further reductions in emissions before 2050, the IPCC's vice chair, Professor Mark Howden, says the world is likely to exceed warming of two degrees Celsius before the...

Only rapid and drastic action against climate change can prevent a climate breakdown, according to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released Monday. Patricia Scotland, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, stressed the urgency to heed this warning and act now to protect Commonwealth Small States. “For over thirty years the Commonwealth has been raising the alarm on climate change, yet...

Climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying, and some trends are now irreversible, at least during the present time frame, according to the latest much-anticipated Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released on Monday. Human-induced climate change is already affecting many weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe. Scientists are also observing changes across the whole...