Tag: Climate Change
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...
There’s no time left for empty climate promises, says Pacific activist
By Dominic Godfrey, RNZ Pacific Journalist
The Pacific's coral reef systems and coastal fisheries are set for extinction if wealthy nations don't drastically and immediately...
IPCC report: ‘Last gasp’ warning on climate response for NZ, the...
RNZ News
The climate is changing, faster than we thought - and humans have caused it. Last night, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
Climate change has already hit. Unless we act now, a hotter,...
ANALYSIS: By Michael Grose, CSIRO; Joelle Gergis, Australian National University; Pep Canadell, CSIRO, and Roshanka Ranasinghe
Australia is experiencing widespread, rapid climate change not seen...
‘We’re sorry,’ Pacific Forum chair tells Micronesia over SG post
By Pita Ligaiula of Pacnews in Suva
Fiji’s Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama used his inaugural speech as the new chair of the Pacific Islands Forum...
Macron launches cyclone shelter project in French Polynesia
RNZ Pacific
France and French Polynesia have agreed to jointly spend US$60 million to build 17 cyclone shelters across the Tuamotu archipelago.
This was announced on...
Problem of racism towards Pasifika in climate change: ‘We want to...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Mariner Fagaiava-Muller, RNZ Pacific Journalist
In New Zealand, youth climate change movement School Strike 4 Climate Auckland has declared itself as racist,...
Climate Commission report gives NZ dairy industry ‘free pass to pollute’,...
By Katie Todd, RNZ News Reporter
Critics have hammered the Climate Change Commission's agriculture goals in New Zealand, saying it has missed the mark on...
‘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...
Marshall Islands as lone Pacific voice at climate summit pleads for...
RNZ Pacific
The Marshall Islands has issued a plea for help and a call to action at the US Leaders Summit on Climate Change.
Addressing the...
Biden’s pledge a start to restoring US climate change credibility
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A Chinese official characterised the US return to the international climate scene, not unfairly, as a “truant getting back to class”,...
Climate Change Commission calls on NZ to take ‘immediate, decisive action’
ANALYSIS: By James Renwick, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand’s Climate Change Commission this week released its long-anticipated advice to the...
Climate Change Commission plan ‘big challenge’ for New Zealand
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News deputy political editor
New Zealand is heading for a major upheaval under a landmark plan to combat the climate crisis...
Bryan Bruce: The hope that arises in spite of the chaotic...
COMMENTARY: By Bryan Bruce
On Wednesday, from behind a wall of bulletproof glass, outgoing US President Donald Trump told a crowd of his supporters to...
Solidarity groups rally in support of Mā’ohi independence leader Temaru
COMMENT: By Ena Manuireva and Tony Fala in Auckland
Tomorrow – November 25 – is D-Day for Tahitian pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru’s trial in New...
New Biden era heralds global climate politics switch with US rejoining...
ANALYSIS: By Christian Downie, Australian National University
When the US formally left the Paris climate agreement, Joe Biden tweeted that “in exactly 77 days, a...
With a mandate to govern NZ alone, Labour must now decide...
ANALYSIS: By David Hall, Auckland University of Technology
A pandemic can change the foundations of a society. But if this happens in New Zealand over...
Greens sweep 10 seats in huge NZ win for climate crisis,...
By RNZ News
The Green Party say voters have given a strong signal they are valued in the New Zealand government, and they have ambitions...
How covid priorities have ‘shelved’ PNG climate change action
The project video - read the linked story.
By Sri Krishnamurthi of the Pacific Media Centre
Climate change action has been "shelved" for the moment in...
Virtual ministerial fisheries meeting voices concerns over ‘state of Pacific’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A new look Regional Fisheries Ministers (RFMM) group met for the first time virtually last week to discuss the state of...
EJN teams up with PMC’s Pacific Media Watch on new climate...
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
In an innovative new development, Internews' Earth Journalism Network (EJN) will partner with the Pacific Media...
Indigenous people spearhead the fight to save the planet
By Imelda V. Abano in Manila
Indigenous people across the world are disproportionately affected by climate change. They are also leading movements to protect our...