Tag: Climate Change
Media warned over ‘doom-laden’ climate change narrative
RNZ Pacific
The media has been taken to task for doom-laden climate crisis presentations in a speech at an international workshop -- and told to...
Climate crisis top Pacific agenda item and it’s a security issue,...
RNZ News
Addressing media on developments at the Pacific Islands Forum in Suva, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says making sure the region is investing now...
‘Call it what it is – climate crisis, not just change,’...
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist
An Aotearoa New Zealand-based Fijian professor of Pacific studies says the increase in the frequency of natural disasters and...
New Zealand and Singapore add climate to partnership priorities
By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital journalist
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong have added a focus on climate...
Climate change: IPCC scientist warns world ‘pretty much out of time’
RNZ News
Deeper and and more rapid cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are needed to limit the worst effects of global warming, a climate scientist...
US announces deeper engagement strategy to match China in the Pacific
By Lice Movono, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Suva
The United States insists it is a Pacific nation and has unveiled a raft of new strategies...
Covid will dominate, but New Zealand will also have to face...
ANALYSIS: By Nathan Cooper, University of Waikato
As the New Zealand government prepares to deal with a looming omicron outbreak, this will not be the...
‘Secret plots’, sovereignty and covid challenges face Pacific for New Year
ANALYSIS: By David Robie in Auckland
The Pacific year has closed with growing tensions over sovereignty and self-determination issues and growing stress over the ravages...
Media advocates tell of struggle for ‘survival and truth’ at Asia-Pacific...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Journalists and journalism are waging a global struggle for survival and for “truth” against fake news and alternative facts, say two...
Critics condemn INEOS and Altrad as ‘not a good fit’ for...
By Sri Krishnamurthi for Asia-Pacific Report
Both the INEOS and Altrad logos will be emblazoned on the All Blacks jerseys and shorts for the next...
World strikes ‘uncomfortable’ pact at COP26 climate summit
SPECIAL REPORT: By Chloé Farand, Joe Lo, Isabelle Gerretsen and Megan Darby
After a series of tense huddles, more than 24 hours into overtime, the gavel went...
Pacific, EU launch landmark ‘blue green’ climate alliance
RNZ Pacific
Pacific and European Union negotiators have launched the Blue Green Alliance at the COP26 Conference of Parties' climate summit in Glasgow.
The EU's Ambassador...
Almost K6m COP26 bill for PNG climate delegation shocks nation
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea -- a country faced with a depressed economy and its public health system on the brink of total collapse due...
‘Practise what you preach’ climate message to Fiji over COP26
By Ajay Bhai Amrit in Suva
Critics in Fiji are concerned about climate change hypocrisy at the COP26 Leaders Summit this week. Fiji Times contributor...
Australia accused of ‘bullying’ Pacific over climate action, ‘buying silence’
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Australia is accused of using "diplomatic strong-arm tactics" to water down outcomes in Pacific climate negotiations and "buy silence" on climate...
‘We’ve done our part’ to ward off a ‘hellish future’, says...
By Talebula Kate
Fiji has done its part in the fight against climate change by pushing for the first international accord to include the 1.5-degree...
COP26: New Zealand’s new climate pledge is a step up, but...
ANALYSIS: By Robert McLachlan, Massey University
As the Glasgow climate summits gets underway, New Zealand’s government has announced a revised pledge, with a headline figure...
‘Don’t fudge with our future’, Māori climate activist warns COP26
Māori climate activist India Logan-Riley speaking on the indigenous challenge to the "colonial project" at the COP26 opening ... “In the US and Canada...
Bainimarama briefed on Fiji, Pacific priorities at COP26 to dodge disaster
By Talebula Kate in Suva
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama was briefed yesterday on Fiji’s priority areas ahead of the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) which...
Pacific ‘in peril’ if COP26 doesn’t work, warns regional church leader
By Peter Kenny in Geneva
The Pacific Islands are in grave danger and at the frontline of global climate change and the United Nations Conference...
Covid pandemic blows world off course over climate crisis, says Bainimarama
By Timoci Vula in Suva
Nearly two years since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, its global socioeconomic “headwinds” have blown many countries far off...
Narrow window to halt climate change catastrophe, says Pacific Forum...
RNZ Pacific
The world is on the brink of a climate catastrophe, with just a narrow window for action to reverse global processes predicted to...