Tag: Climate Action

At the helm of Greenpeace environmental campaign vessels for more than 30 years, Peter Willcox talks with Kendall Hutt about climate change and his...

The Arctic 30's thank you message after their release in November 2013 - cited in Peter Willcox's new book out next week. Video: Greenpeace Review...

WARNING: Shocking images. Citizen video footage of the Philippines security forces in their increasingly savage use of force against the protesting farmers. Video: Kilab...

April will mark the urgency of action needed to address the issue of climate change with a collaborative project between the Pacific Media Centre...

By India Thorogood "Indonesia is burning - so why is the world looking away?" Late last year those words shone a small spotlight on a...

Asia Pacific Report photographer Del Abcede captures some colourful and poignant moments at today's SkyCity climate change protest against the New Zealand Petroleum Conference.

Most news media took pictures of the climate change "civil disobedience" protest today at vantage points outside the SkyCity Auckland Convention Centre. But Asia Pacific...

More than 200 protesters converged on New Zealand’s largest oil industry conference at dawn today, blockading its entrances as part of a Greenpeace-organised demonstration...

The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) has been given observer status in the board of the UN Green Climate Fund (GCF), Secretary-General Dame Meg...

By Thomas Leaycraft of Scoop Last year's COP21 Paris agreement on climate change was "a positive outcome' but did nowhere near enough to address the...

By Cole Mellino Fiji has become the first country in the world to formally approve the UN climate deal adopted by 195 nations in Paris in December...

By Thomas Leaycraft of Scoop Paula Bennett, New Zealand's Minister for Climate Change, has acknowledged that widespread action is needed to tackle climate change. Making brief...

By Thomas Leaycraft of Scoop Climate change activists have to be prepared for a confrontation with oil companies that will "flat out lie", says environmental...

By Thomas Leaycraft of Scoop Praying for action on climate change and a kava ceremony in the heart of the Catholic Church were all part...

By Thomas Leaycraft of Scoop Pacific Island peoples could be "early reclaimers" of a zero-emissions lifestyle, while also urging the international community to take "extreme"...

Pacific nations need to weave together and act now to avoid tragedy as the effects of climate change take their toll on the region,...

By Thomas Leaycraft of Scoop The "window of possibility" for less than 2 degree C temperature rise will close in the next 10 years, says...

By Thomas Leaycraft of Scoop When Kiribati President Anote Tong told his story about climate change to the United Nations General Assembly, they didn’t listen. “They...

By Thomas Leaycraft of Scoop New Zealand needs to acknowledge that Pacific Island nations face an “ecological holocaust” and “ecocide” thanks to climate change, says...

Victoria University Vice-Chancellor Grant Guilford told delegates at the opening of a university-hosted Pacific Climate Change Conference today that politicians need to act now...

The science is clear, climate change is upon us and nowhere is the impact more serious than in the Pacific. Next week, Victoria University is...

PlanetFM Protests against the TPPA protests, the climate change movement post-Paris 2015, and the run up to Waitangi day ... Unite Union's Joe Carolan talks to...