Tag: Climate Change
Act now to avoid tragedy, academic warns politicians on climate
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...
Landmark NZ climate change conference opens to ‘unite Pacific’
Kiribati’s President Anote Tong, a leading advocate for the Pacific over climate change, is one the keynote speakers at a landmark conference on the...
Climate crises in post-Paris Pacific – conference tackles key realities
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...
Vanuatu heat wave suspected cause for sudden death of fish
By Anita Roberts in Port Vila
Thousands of reef fish of different sizes and species have died suddenly on the reef at Pango village near...
Climate model tool shows warmer South-East Asia future
From SciDev.Net
By Dyna Rochmyaningsih in Jakarta
Scientists in South-East Asia and the United Kingdom’s Met Office have teamed up to develop a model that predicts...
Veteran Rainbow Warrior activist, global eco advocate to co-lead Greenpeace
This video interview with Bunny McDiarmid was by the Pacific Media Centre's Alistar Kata to mark the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the...
#COP21: Climate insurgency after Paris
Report from Common Dreams
"The governments of the world may rule the world but they don’t own the world." In this analysis, Jeremy Brecher reflects...
Kiribati’s sacred sites storyteller – ‘I don’t hold the answer of...
Report from National Geographic
By Janice Cantieri in Tarawa
“If, one day, the waves take away these sacred places and they’re gone, we will keep on...
#COP 21: Voices of the Pacific – some regional reflections
Report by Pacific Media Watch in Apia
Pacific delegations to COP21 were part of the historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change reached by negotiators last...
#COP21: The Paris climate agreement: The real work starts now
Report by Pep Canadell and Rob Jackson in Sydney
The Paris climate agreement is an extraordinary achievement. It codifies the long-term goal of keeping global...
#COP21: Global climate deal shows end of fossil fuels is near...
By Kumi Naidoo in Paris
THE WHEEL of climate action turns slowly, but in Paris it has turned. There’s much in this deal - the...
#COP21: World leaders make climate deal history – but is it...
New China TV video clip of the historic moment
Report by Pacific Media Watch
Delegates from 195 nations have reached an unprecedented agreement on global climate...
#COP21: Climate deal final draft ‘agreed’ in Paris
Report by Rapid News
Organisers of the #COP21 climate talks in Paris say a final draft text has been agreed after nearly two weeks of...
#COP21: Russia, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela block Pacific’s push for 1.5 deg...
Report by Makereta Komai in Paris
The three major oil and gas economies - Russia, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela - have emerged as main stumbling...
COP21: Pacific negotiators dig in on ‘red line’ over key targets
Report by Samisoni Pareti in Paris
On the eve of the conclusion in Paris of negotiations for a new global agreement on climate change, ministers...
COP21: What will become of us? – a message from young...
Report by Samisoni Pareti in Paris
A young Pacific Islander’s plea for world leaders to help save her island nation from the impacts of climate...
#COP21: Expert warns climate crisis worse than we think, scientists self-censoring...
An Amy Goodman interview reporting from Paris. Image: Democracy Now!
Report by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!
Before the United Nations climate change summit in Paris,...
COP21: Indonesian forest fires hot issue for global climate summit
Report by Professor Crispin Maslog in MANILA
As 190 nations grapple with the world's future at the global climate summit in Paris, forest fires in...
#COP21: Draft Paris Outcome on table for climate deal includes Pacific...
By Makereta Komai in Paris
After a week of negotiations, negotiators from 195 countries have produced a Draft Paris Outcome that is likely to become...
COP21: Politicians leading world to ‘very dangerous future’, says Naomi Klein
Analysis by Mychaylo Prystupa
In sharp contrast to the hopefulness that some environmentalists are expressing at the COP21 climate summit, iconic Canadian activist and...
COP21: Pacific battles for recognition in new Climate Change agreement
Report by Pacific Media Watch from Paris
“We are gradually being sidelined, everyone is now claiming that they are the most vulnerable” – Ambassador Feturi...
#COP21: Fingers point as threat from Papuan forest fires increases
Report by Ryan Dagur in Jakarta
While countries consider their climate change options for the future at COP21 in Paris, forest fires and the ensuing...