Tag: Climate crisis
Dealing with a ‘bloody messy’ world – the urgent foreign policy...
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato
Since Jacinda Ardern described the state of world affairs as “bloody messy” earlier this year there have been...
Fiji academic warns over media ‘climate injustice’ in open access webinar
By David Robie
A Fiji-based academic challenged the Pacific region’s media and policymakers today over climate crisis coverage, asking whether the discriminatory style of reporting...
Russel Norman: Don’t be fooled by NZ greenwashing, the lack of...
ANALYSIS: By Russel Norman, executive director of Greenpeace Aotearoa
Only people power can ensure genuine enduring progress on climate and people need to know the...
NZ’s new climate crisis plan: ‘Blueprint for more resilient communities’
By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News climate reporter
For the first time Aotearoa New Zealand has a long-term strategy to deal with the effects of climate...
NZ to provide $15m to support Samoa over climate change action
By Giles Dexter, RNZ News political reporter
New Zealand will provide $15 million to support Samoa with its climate change priorities.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made...
NZ should show real solidarity with the Pacific by embracing climate...
COMMENTARY: By Prue Taylor in Auckland
From 1949 to 1996 more than 300 nuclear devices were detonated in the Pacific. In the mid-1990s a generation...
‘A bit of a surprise’ – Greens co-leader James Shaw’s job...
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News deputy political editor
A shellshocked Climate Change Minister James Shaw has been ejected from the New Zealand Greens' leadership by...
Pacific leaders call on world to take urgent climate action for...
By Geraldine Panapasa in Suva
Climate change remains the single greatest existential threat facing the Blue Pacific, as leaders concluded the biggest diplomatic regional meeting...
Media warned over ‘doom-laden’ climate change narrative
RNZ Pacific
The media has been taken to task for doom-laden climate crisis presentations in a speech at an international workshop -- and told to...
Pacific Islands Forum launches new 2050 strategic blueprint
RNZ Pacific
The Pacific Islands Forum has launched a new longterm strategy to address present and future challenges faced by Pacific peoples.
The "2050 Strategy for...
Climate crisis top Pacific agenda item and it’s a security issue,...
RNZ News
Addressing media on developments at the Pacific Islands Forum in Suva, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says making sure the region is investing now...
Climate change costs at-risk countries $525 billion in damage, says report
RNZ Pacific
A new report on the economic impacts of climate change faced by the world's most at-risk countries has found the climate crisis has...
As Wong makes her mark in the Pacific, the Albanese government...
ANALYSIS: By Tony Walker, La Trobe University
Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s decision to embark on a diplomatic offensive to outflank China in the Pacific within...
Dan McGarry: A new day in the Pacific – but will...
THE VILLAGE EXPLAINER: By Dan McGarry
With the Australian general election largely done and dusted, and with a clear (if still-to-be-quantified) mandate, Anthony Albanese faces...
NZ’s focus on private vehicles an ‘off-track’ climate change plan, say...
RNZ News
Critics of New Zealand's new $4.5 billion global warming plan to help New Zealanders into electric vehicles and hybrids say a significant cheque...
‘Call it what it is – climate crisis, not just change,’...
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist
An Aotearoa New Zealand-based Fijian professor of Pacific studies says the increase in the frequency of natural disasters and...
Pacific civil society disappointed over ‘big let down’ COP26 climate summit
RNZ Pacific
Pacific civil society organisations say COP26 was the most exclusionary and inequitable of the annual United Nations climate negotiations so far and the...
COP26 climate trip branded ‘junket’ – Prasad slams 36-strong Fiji team
By Luke Nacei in Suva
Opposition National Federation Party leader Professor Biman Prasad has hit out at the Fiji government, calling on Prime Minister Voreqe...
The ultimate guide to why the COP26 summit ended in failure...
ANALYSIS: By Robert Hales, Griffith University and Brendan Mackey, Griffith University
After two hard-fought weeks of negotiations, the Glasgow climate change summit is, at last,...
World strikes ‘uncomfortable’ pact at COP26 climate summit
SPECIAL REPORT: By Chloé Farand, Joe Lo, Isabelle Gerretsen and Megan Darby
After a series of tense huddles, more than 24 hours into overtime, the gavel went...
Rev James Bhagwan: Climate justice now for the sake of humanity
COMMENTARY: By Reverend James Bhagwan
The climate emergency is the result of an ethical, moral and spiritual crisis, manifested in a fixation on profit.
The extractive...
It’s time to deliver on Pacific climate financing, says Cook Is...
COMMENTARY: By the Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown
After years of empty promises by major emitters, it's time to deliver on climate financing.
The world...