Tag: Climate Change Relocation
‘Step up’ over Carterets food crisis, PNG minister warns rich nations
By Richard Ewart on ABC's Pacific Beat
Papua New Guinea's Minister for Climate Change is calling on the international community to take responsibility for a...
Relocation for ‘sinking islands’ cheaper but ‘we’re staying’, vows Tuvalu PM
By Matthew Vari in Funafuti, Tuvalu
Relocation is a cheap option for sinking island countries - but "we are going to stay", vows Tuvalu Prime...
Fiji to set up relocation trust fund for villages hit by...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A Relocation Trust Fund will be set up by the Fiji government to help villages facing the threat of climate change.
Economy...
Adaptation, mitigation and relocation – only Pacific choices, says academic
By Rahul Bhattarai
A leading academic on peace research issues has called for increased policy making efforts to face up to the challenges of Pacific...
Elisabeth Holland: Pacific climate change persistence – we’re all in the...
The University of the South Pacific’s environmental centre spearheading climate change research believes in working together for shared solutions, says Professor Elisabeth Holland. Video:...
Gallery: Fiji’s first climate change village moved from seashore to ‘promised...
By Hele Ikimotu with visuals and drone video by Blessen Tom
Vunidogoloa was the first village in Fiji to be relocated - barely three years...
PMC’s Bearing Witness project reporters win Dart trauma award
The Bearing Witness video and the prizewinning multimedia package.
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Pacific Media Centre's Bearing Witness climate change project has won the Dart...
Tiny Timbulsloko fights back in face of Indonesia’s ‘ecological disaster’
Drone views of the village of Timbulsloko showing the scale of coastal erosion and sinking flatlands in an area that once used to be...
Migration expert calls for immediate climate action over displaced millions
Researchers in Bonn warn Pacific Islanders may be among the first to be forced to migrate due to climate change, as sea level rise...
Fiji’s devastated Tukuraki village moves to new site after landslide
A Pacific Media Centre video at Tukuraki by the Bearing Witness team Julie Cleaver and Kendall Hutt in May.
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
After more than...
‘Live, thrive in a new place’ – financing Pacific climate adaptation
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
By the end of the 21st century, sea levels are expected to rise by a maximum of 1.5 metres as...
Destruction and construction – Tukuraki’s lonely story of survival
Tukuraki after the landslide ... video by Julie Cleaver.
In January 2012, a small Fijian village on Viti Levu was almost wiped off the map...