Tag: Climate Change
Precarious politics pose threats to world’s three biggest rainforests
By Sara Stefanini
Political uncertainty hangs over large swathes of the world’s tropical forests this year, raising the risk of more destruction and carbon emissions.
Recent...
Fiji warns ‘selfish’ countries amid Paris Agreement climate rulebook deadlock
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Talks to draft the Paris Agreement rulebook remained deadlocked today on traditionally tough issues.
Emerging economies - China, India, Brazil and South...
Pacific voices tell stories of climate change reality in new documentary
A new documentary Subject to Change, a collection of interviews and personal stories from across the Pacific, explores the impact of climate change. Video:...
Nations close ranks to stop ‘big four’ oil producers watering down...
By Sara Stefanini and Karl Mathiesen in Katowice, Poland
In a moment of drama in Poland, countries have closed ranks against a push by oil...
To conserve West Papua, start with land rights and forget past...
ANALYSIS: By Bernadinus Steni and Daniel Nepstad
Large landscapes of intact tropical forests will figure prominently in global strategies to avert catastrophic climate change and...
Refugees, journalist detention in Nauru ‘overshadow Pacific issues’
Support was widespread for journalist Barbara Dreaver’s detention at the Pacific Islands Forum in Nauru earlier this month. But, reports Maxine Jacobs for Asia...
Climate change tops action at Forum in spite of Canberra’s resistance
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Climate change, labour mobility and West Papua are some of the issues that Vanuatu played a key part in discussions during...
Indonesia risks ending up with a doomed ‘can’t-do’ climate plan
By Warief Djajanto Basorie
Three hundred schoolchildren from the greater Jakarta area sat on a red carpet covering the cavernous Soedjarwo auditorium—named to honour the...
Elisabeth Holland: Pacific climate change persistence – we’re all in the...
The University of the South Pacific’s environmental centre spearheading climate change research believes in working together for shared solutions, says Professor Elisabeth Holland. Video:...
Strongest climate solutions ‘developed together’, says PaCE-SD chief
Blessen Tom's video interview with PaCE-SD director Professor Elisabeth Holland in Suva. Video: PMC
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The University of the South Pacific’s environmental centre...
Gallery: Fiji’s first climate change village moved from seashore to ‘promised...
By Hele Ikimotu with visuals and drone video by Blessen Tom
Vunidogoloa was the first village in Fiji to be relocated - barely three years...
Gallery: Bearing Witness journeys north …. to Fiji’s idyllic Rabi Island
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Pacific Media Centre's Bearing Witness climate project postgraduate student team Hele Ikimotu and Blessen Tom have just spent five days on...
USP celebrates 50 years and leads research action on climate change
Bearing Witness crew Blessen Tom and Hele Ikimotu's video story of USP's ongoing 50th anniversary celebrations and climate change. Video: AUT Pacific Media Centre
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Bearing Witness students win big at AUT communication studies awards
By Jean Bell in Auckland
Bearing Witness climate change project students won big last night at the annual awards ceremony for AUT's School of Communication...
Bearing Witness climate storytellers gear up for fresh Fiji challenge
By Jean Bell in Auckland
Two postgraduate students on the Pacific Media Centre's Bearing Witness climate change project are due to jet to Fiji this...
France committed to backing ePOP Pacific climate storytelling
By Elizabeth Osifelo in Suva
The French government is committed to the fight against climate change in the Pacific and hopes programmes such as the...
Tide of Change – documentary by USP students explores climate action
The Tide of Change climate adaptation documentary by university of the South Pacific student journalists. Video: Wansolwara
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The people of Natawaru Settlement...
Asia-Pacific media must ‘empower people’ on climate action, says PMC
Apriline Widani of the Centre for Southeast Asia Social Studies (CESASS) at the Universitas Gadjah Mada talks to the Pacific Media Centre director Professor...
Tuila’epa calls for urgent action over climate change for Pacific survival
By Nanette Woonton at Te Papa
The stark realities of climate change were laid bare at the opening of the Pacific Ocean, Pacific Climate Conference...
Juffa blasts PNG resources ‘sell out’ but tells of Managalas hope
Rapacious logging cartels feature in PNG's Northern Province Governor Gary Juffa's speech. Video: Café Pacific
By David Robie at Te Papa
Northern Province Governor Gary Juffa...
Underestimate climate change political upheaval ‘at peril’, warns former PM
By David Robie at Te Papa
A former New Zealand prime minister has warned that climate change has the potential to force a legal and...
Tuila’epa to open high-powered Pacific climate conference
Trailer for the controversial climate change documentary Anote's Ark - former Kiribati President Anote Tong opened the previous Pacific Climate Change Conference in Wellington...