Tag: Climate Change
Climate change report confirms ‘worst fears’ for Pacific nations
The State of the Climate 2015 report released this week has reaffirmed that efforts by Pacific Island countries need to be accelerated to keep...
Neoliberalism poisoned climate action and renewables are the antidote
The dominance of ‘econobabble’ and market approaches have hurt climate action. That’s why renewable energy is vital to the future of the climate and the economy, write Dan...
WJEC16: Climate change reportage ‘needs stepping up’ in Asia-Pacific newsrooms
Climate change reportage in the Asia-Pacific needs to be stepped up and taken more seriously by the region's media organisations. This was an issue...
Images: Asia-Pacific delegates make their mark at global media conference
Pacific media educators and trainers from around the Pacific took advantage of last week’s 4th World Journalism Education Congress (WJEC) to get up to...
WJEC16: Post-COP21: Journalism climate change education in Asia-Pacific: Responding to key...
Leading up to COP21 Paris, there was overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is happening, and human-induced.
With global warming on the increase and species...
Fiji assignment enlightens aspiring climate change journalists
By Denise Yeo
A two-week journalism stint in Fiji, dubbed “Bearing Witness”, has lent new perspectives on the effects of climate change on AUT journalism...
Kayak climate protest for Pacific targets PM Turnbull at home
Members of Sydney’s Pacific Islander community and supporters are kayaking down Sydney Harbour to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s harbourside residence today to protest against...
Asia-Pacific climate change reporting skills need boost but media ‘lacking resources’
By TJ Aumua
Media experts say journalism institutions lack the resources needed to raise the quality and awareness of environmental reportage in the Asia-Pacific region.
Widely...
Vlad Sokhin: ‘Warm Waters’ – threat of climate change to low-lying...
By Vanuatu Daily Digest
"Warm Waters’" a photoessay on climate change by Russian photojournalist Vlad Sokhin, is the best piece of reporting on climate change in...
Pacific Profile: Jale Samuwai Curuki – ‘If you’re still a climate...
Report and video story by TJ Aumua for Asia Pacific Report
Name: Jale Samuwai Curuki
Age: 30
Occupation: PhD candidate, University of the South Pacific
Passion: Accounting, climate...
Samoan PM calls on ACP countries to work together on climate...
EMTV News ACP headlines on YouTube.
By Meleasie Goviro in Port Moresby
Representing the Pacific Islands at the official opening of the African Caribbean and Pacific...
Pacific Climate Change Centre step closer – building starts next June
The Pacific Islands are a step closer to having their very own Pacific Climate Change Centre to be hosted at the Secretariat of the...
Sunday profile: Pala Molisa – a radical accountant’s eye on social...
Pala Molisa is the son of two of the leading lights of Vanuatu's independence movement, onetime Vanua'aku Pati cabinet minister Sela Molisa and civil...
Pacific Profile: Jenny Jiva – ‘Climate change is very real now’
Report and video story by TJ Aumua
Name: Jenny Jiva
Age: 23
Occupation: Masters student, University of the South Pacific
Passion: Pacific diplomacy and climate change
Country: Fiji
Jenny Jiva,...
Tackling two sides of the Samoa story – it’s more than...
By Marj Moore in an editorial in today's Samoa Observer.
TWO SIDES TO THE STORY
There are always (at least) two sides to a story.
And one...
Climate change protest forces ANZ to shut flagship NZ branch for...
Banking group ANZ is one of the biggest investors in fossil fuel industries. Failing to get much response from management with letters, activists 350...
Call for new media strategies for climate change journalism
Last month's AJ+ video about ExxonMobile's tactics in casting doubt on climate change science.
Do changes to climate change reporting need to happen? Does the...
Indonesia on fire, cross-boundary public health hazards
Fires in Indonesia, which burned more than 2.1 million hectares of forest and peatlands in 2015, have raged in dry seasons year on year,...
Daku has a climate message for the world: ‘Tell them to...
By Ami Dhabuwala and TJ Aumua in Daku village, Tailevu, Fiji
A 50-minute drive out of Suva city is Daku village, a community of 332...
Images: Fiji’s Daku village tackles the floodwaters problem
Daku village, less than an hour's drive from Suva in Tailevu, near Nausori, on the main Fiji island of Viti Levu, is a living...
Pacific example can help ‘save the world’ on climate change, says...
By Ami Dhabuwala in Suva
The people of the Pacific have been handed a big challenge over the weekend – mobilise for urgent climate change...
Pacific Island states take lead on landmark UN climate deal
The signing of the Paris Accord on climate change at the United Nations. Video: PBS News Hour clip
By Carole Landry in New York
With their...