Tag: Climate Change
Paris climate deal signing ceremony – what it means and why...
By Damon Jones and Bill Hare
The world took a collective sigh of relief in the last days of 2015, when countries came together to...
Pacific youth face uncertain future over climate change, says leader
TJ Aumua's video report on youth's fears over their homelands. PMC on Demand
By TJ Aumua
The effects of climate change on Pacific island nations like...
Fiji’s climate change patterns hit pristine coral reefs hard
Almost two months following the most devastating cyclone to have ever hit Fiji, the country’s people and biodiversity are still struggling towards recovery, Anuja...
Crime scandal shows NZ’s climate policy is ‘hot air’, says Greenpeace
Greenpeace New Zealand has called for the "linchpin" of New Zealand’s climate policy to be thrown out following a report released today that shows...
Veteran climate scientist forecasts loss of all coastal cities
Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms ... Professor Hansen speaks on the science and implications. Video: Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions
An “alarming” new...
Two NZ-based journalists join Fiji ‘bearing witness’ climate change project
April will mark the urgency of action needed to address the issue of climate change with a collaborative project between the Pacific Media Centre...
TJ Aumua takes on ‘niche’ job as Pacific Media Watch editor
TJ Aumua reflects on her PCF exchange scholarship in Fiji last year. PMC video
Auckland University of Technology honours graduate journalist TJ Aumua has been...
Fifth Estate: ‘Bomber’ talks climate change and the impact on Pacific
Michael Timmins (left) and Dr David Robie on Fifth Estate tonight. Video: Slipstream Media
Radio Waatea and The Daily Blog featured the Pacific and climate...
Civil disobedience key tactic in climate change strategy
More than 200 people gathered in Auckland this week to protest against the country’s largest oil industry conference, warning that increased attempts at oil...
Images: Climate change advocacy brings colour, vibrancy to SkyCity protest
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.
Climate change activists stage singing blockade at NZ oil summit
"I hear the voice of my granddaughter saying climate action now," sing protesters at the main entrance to the SkyCity convention centre. Video: Del...
Climate change protesters blockade oil summit in Auckland’s Sky City
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...
Hundreds protest at oil conference – #Real Climate Action live news...
LIVE NEWSFEED: Peaceful civil disobedience in Auckland, March 21 - Greenpeace
Hundreds of climate change protesters were today blockading entrance to the oil industry conference...
Forum wins improved recognition for Pacific climate concerns
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...
‘Life and death’ climate action needed now after February heat spike
The month of February has experienced a whopping temperature rise not seen before in the history of record-keeping, according to just-released global satellite data,...
Despite taking lead on global stage, Fiji pays price for climate...
The Pacific nation was already struggling to adapt to rising oceans and increasing temperatures when severe tropical cyclone Winston struck, comments Common Dreams staff...
Fiji becomes world’s first country to ratify Paris climate agreement
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...
Bennett admits ‘collective’ action needed to take on climate change
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...
Indigenous rights lawyer tells of ‘early zero-emissions’ lifestyle
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"...
Catastrophic glacial meltdown big global risk, says researcher
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...
‘If we can’t solve climate change, we’ll need Kapiti Island’, 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...
‘We’re going to lose islands … whole countries,’ says Pacific climate...
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...