Tag: Climate Action

Climate activists from across the Pacific region have presented a declaration on climate change to key Pacific environmental leaders at COP23. The Pacific Climate...

By Anita Roberts in Bonn The Paris Climate Agreement must be implemented swiftly as backing away will expose people to more risks, Fiji's Prime Minister Voreqe...

OPINION: By Murray Horton, of the Aotearoa Independence Movement Jacinda Ardern, we have some suggestions for when you go as New Zealand's incoming Prime Minister...

OPINION: By Dr Shailendra Singh Climate change seems to be getting increasingly more news coverage recently, which is a positive outcome—on at least some levels. But...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A "supergroup" of New Zealand environmental organisations has sent an open letter to the leaders of four key political parties, warning...

OPINION: By Mata'afa Keni Lesa in Apia There is no doubt about it. The leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum in Apia this week have...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk As Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull prepares to meet with his island counterparts this week in Apia, Samoa, Pacific civil society...

By Shawn Raymundo and Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Former Republic of the Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Tony de Brum, a Pacific champion of climate change...

ANALYSIS: By Rod Campbell As much of the world watched the G20 last week, another leaders’ summit was on in Fiji. Fiji will chair the next...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk A Wansolwara second-year student journalist from the University of the South Pacific has been included among 10 Pacific journalists who have...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk As Pacific leaders gather in Fiji, civil society groups are urging them to take the strongest possible climate message to the...

Pacific Media Centre News Desk Greenpeace Indonesia has staged a protest in front of the US embassy in Jakarta over the decision of President Donald...

Pacific Media Watch News Desk President Donald Trump's move to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement is a grave moral injustice,...

Dr Morgan Wairiu speaking in a clip from the Asia Pacific Report interview. Video: PMC Report by Kendall Hutt and video by Julie Cleaver in...

Jenny Jiva, a Fiji student climate change activist, speaking in a Bearing Witness interview with PMC journalist TJ Aumua in Suva last year. Video:...

Greenpeace NZ executive director Russel Norman speaking to the master of the Amazon Warrior. Video: Greenpeace NZ The Greenpeace New Zealand boat Taitu has "intercepted"...

The Pacific Media Centre's popular “Bearing Witness” climate change project enters its second year next month. As part of a collaborative venture between Auckland University...

ANALYSIS: By Professor Biman Prasad It has been interesting to read about Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama's intentions on COP23 (Conference of Parties 23) in...

An unprecedented legal case has been filed this week against the Norwegian government for allowing oil companies including state-owned Statoil to drill for new...

Leading up to COP21 Paris, there was overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is happening, and human-induced. With global warming on the increase and species...

By Fatu Tauafiafi in Pape'ete Leaders and officials of the Polynesian Leaders Group gathered today in Pape'ete, Tahiti, in a special conference to follow-up on...

By Denise Yeo A two-week journalism stint in Fiji, dubbed “Bearing Witness”, has lent new perspectives on the effects of climate change on AUT journalism...