Tag: Climate Change
Foreign journalists ban over ferry disaster blamed on climate doco
What if your country was swallowed by the sea? Kiribati (pop. 100,000) is one of the first countries that must confront the main existential dilemma...
‘We’re losing the climate change battle,’ warns Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron appeals to the world to do more on climate change. Video: Al Jazeera
French President Emmanuel Macron has delivered a rallying...
PMC’s Bearing Witness project reporters win Dart trauma award
The Bearing Witness video and the prizewinning multimedia package.
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Pacific Media Centre's Bearing Witness climate change project has won the Dart...
Kiribati – a Pacific ‘drowning paradise’ fighting for its existence
DW Documentary reports on Kiribati's struggle for survival with climate change. Video: DW
DOCUMENTARY: By Markus Henssler
Climate change and rising sea levels mean the island...
Strong leadership needed to drive COP Pacific climate goals, says Greenpeace
"Together, we must take action to protect our world" - Shalvi Shakshi's inspirational climate story. Video: UNICEF
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Greenpeace has called for climate...
Tiny Timbulsloko fights back in face of Indonesia’s ‘ecological disaster’
Drone views of the village of Timbulsloko showing the scale of coastal erosion and sinking flatlands in an area that once used to be...
Women must be at centre of global climate solutions, says Fiji...
By Mereoni Mili in Bonn, Germany
It is important that women and girls remain in the centre of climate solutions.
These were the words of Fiji's...
Migration expert calls for immediate climate action over displaced millions
Researchers in Bonn warn Pacific Islanders may be among the first to be forced to migrate due to climate change, as sea level rise...
Timoci shares his story of climate change – it’s real and...
Video: Fijian Government
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A 12-year-old Fijian student has wowed COP23 in Bonn with an eloquent and passionate speech.
Year 7 student Timoci Naulusala,...
‘We need climate, nuclear justice,’ says Marshalls president and poet daughter
Gender Day at the UN Climate Change Conference. Democracy Now! talks to the president of the Marshall Islands, Hilda Heine, and her daughter, poet...
Fiji, Philippines campaigners call for ‘real climate leadership’ at COP23
Democracy Now! talks to campaigners from the Philippines and Fiji.
As the second week of the UN climate conference has got underway in Bonn, Germany,...
Activists from Puerto Rico to Pacific demand climate compo, no fossil...
Democracy Now!'s video on the Bonn protests demanding an end to fossil fuel extraction.
Thousands of people have taken to the streets in the German...
‘Healers, not harmers’ – Climate Warriors present COP23 declaration
Climate activists from across the Pacific region have presented a declaration on climate change to key Pacific environmental leaders at COP23.
The Pacific Climate...
‘The world must act now’ on climate change, calls Bainimarama
By Anita Roberts in Bonn
The Paris Climate Agreement must be implemented swiftly as backing away will expose people to more risks, Fiji's Prime Minister Voreqe...
Fiji’s devastated Tukuraki village moves to new site after landslide
A Pacific Media Centre video at Tukuraki by the Bearing Witness team Julie Cleaver and Kendall Hutt in May.
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
After more than...
David Hall: Emissions, not migration, the real climate change issue in...
ANALYSIS: By David Hall of AUT's The Policy Observatory
The problem with climate change – like any wicked problem – is that its story can...
Health risks of climate change ‘earliest, most severe’ for Pacific –...
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Loss of sea ice, accelerated sea level rise, and longer, more intense heat waves. The observable effects of climate change...
Mata’afa Keni Lesa: Another Pacific talkfest but what about the carbon...
OPINION: By Mata'afa Keni Lesa in Apia
There is no doubt about it. The leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum in Apia this week have...
‘Live, thrive in a new place’ – financing Pacific climate adaptation
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
By the end of the 21st century, sea levels are expected to rise by a maximum of 1.5 metres as...
Pacific voices, culture key to climate change adaptation, say journalists
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Engaging with the Pacific and its stories of climate change is key to tackling the global issue, Catholic organisations have...
NZ climate change approach must ‘transcend government’, says report
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Concerns have emerged New Zealand may not meet its obligations under the Paris Agreement if a law on emissions is...
The world climate leaders’ summit you didn’t hear about
ANALYSIS: By Rod Campbell
As much of the world watched the G20 last week, another leaders’ summit was on in Fiji.
Fiji will chair the next...