Tag: Climate Change
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...
Wansolwara student journalist among 10 chosen for COP23 Pacific team
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
A Wansolwara second-year student journalist from the University of the South Pacific has been included among 10 Pacific journalists who have...
USP students, France24 team up in smart-phone Fiji climate story
The France24 Observers climate change report on Fiji featuring ePOP student journalists Koroi Tadulala and Telstar Edrie Jimmy. Video: France 24 Observers - in...
Keep fossil fuels in ground, say Pacific groups demanding ‘real climate...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
As Pacific leaders gather in Fiji, civil society groups are urging them to take the strongest possible climate message to the...
Cook Islands plays role in Pacific research mapping media culture
By Rashneel Kumar in Avarua, Rarotonga
The Cook Islands is part of a 12-nation research project to comprehensively map Pacific Islands journalism culture at a...
NZ law student takes government to court over climate policy ‘failure’
Hamilton law student Sarah Thomson speaking about her court case against the NZ government. Video: Greenpeace NZ
A New Zealand law student is battling the...
Paris climate change pact ‘not enough to save us’, warns Fiji...
By Nasik Swami in Suva
Current national contributions by countries to the Paris Agreement on climate change are not enough to save the Pacific, says...
Climate change ‘defining issue for the world’, says Labour MP
Hele Ikimotu checks out Auckland responses to climate change in a vox pops video.
By Hele Ikimotu in Auckland
Pasifika youth should be more engaged with...
Pacific leaders drive call for healthier oceans at UN conference
Campaigning to save threatened Pacific and global fish stocks. Video: UN
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Political leaders from across the Pacific have played a central role...
Fred Wesley: Our environment message needs to be in every corner...
EDITORIAL: By Fred Wesley
Today is a special day. On June 5 every year there is a concerted effort to promote awareness on the importance...
Pacific-wide study aims to understand how journalists cover climate change
By Kendall Hutt
Climate change is at the heart of a unique regional study into journalism culture in the Pacific.
The study, focusing on journalism’s role...
Destruction and construction – Tukuraki’s lonely story of survival
Tukuraki after the landslide ... video by Julie Cleaver.
In January 2012, a small Fijian village on Viti Levu was almost wiped off the map...
Cyclone Donna leaves northern Vanuatu, heads for New Caledonia
Cyclone Donna has left destruction in its wake in Vanuatu's north and is now tracking towards New Caledonia.
Authorities have issued a level one alert...
Village relocation provides new hope for Fiji’s devastated Tukuraki
By Julie Cleaver and Kendall Hutt in Tukuraki, Fiji
After six years in limbo, the villagers of Tukuraki in the Fiji highlands of Ba on...
Don’t forget social aspects when protecting environment, says cleric
By John I. Borja in Hagåtña, Guam
The social aspects of climate change must be considered in efforts to protect the environment, says Guam’s coadjutor...
Climate change report will help countries cut emissions
Dr Morgan Wairiu speaking in a clip from the Asia Pacific Report interview. Video: PMC
Report by Kendall Hutt and video by Julie Cleaver in...
Fiji youth must be ‘ambassadors for climate change fight’, says NGO...
Jenny Jiva, a Fiji student climate change activist, speaking in a Bearing Witness interview with PMC journalist TJ Aumua in Suva last year. Video:...
Eelco Rohling: We need to get rid of carbon in the...
ANALYSIS: By Professor Eelco Rohling in Canberra
Getting climate change under control is a formidable, multifaceted challenge. Analysis by my colleagues and me suggests that...
Fiji needs better urban planning to reduce climate change impact, says...
By Julie Cleaver and Kendall Hutt in Suva
The effects of climate change on vulnerable areas throughout Fiji could be reduced if the island nation...
Bill McKibben: Stop swooning over Justin Trudeau – he’s a disaster...
OPINION: By Bill McKibben
Donald Trump is so spectacularly horrible that it’s hard to look away – especially now that he’s discovered bombs. But precisely...
AUT journalists head off to Fiji for Bearing Witness climate project
As schools, universities and other educational centres closed early today in the face of warnings over high winds and power outages with the full...
COP23 co-chairs plan ‘Bula Spirit’ to liven up climate change agenda
Highlighting the effects of climate change on small island states remains the central focus of upcoming climate negotiations co-chaired by Germany and Fiji.
United Nations...