Tag: Climate change resilience
World Bank grant to boost Vanuatu reforms for squatter settlements
By Hilaire Bule, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Port Vila
A VT2 billion grant from the World Bank Group is set to reform unplanned urban settlements...
How covid-19 has undermined climate change initiatives in the Pacific
By Sri Krishnamurthi, reporting for the Pacific Media Centre
“Climate change may be slower but its momentum is enormous.” – Stuart Chape, Acting Director-General, South...
Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?
By Sri Krishnamurthi
Highly commended for their recent success at the Ossie Awards for the best student journalism in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific...
40 luxury Maseratis for PNG, but little effort put into climate...
Papua New Guinea has shown unwavering commitment to next month’s Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit with its controversial purchase of 40 Maserati luxury sedans....
‘Most important years in history’ – last chance over climate, says...
Warming beyond 1.5C will unleash a frightening set of consequences and scientists say only a global transformation, beginning now, can avoid it. Climate Home...
24 Pacific students gain special climate change resilience training
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Twenty four students attended face-to-face training sessions in Suva last week as the final step of an intensive 16-week training programme...