Tag: Climate crisis
Graham Davis: A COP26 slap in the face for Fiji’s ‘oceans...
COMMENTARY: By Graham Davis
What do you do when the other small island nations don’t recognise your brilliance and won’t go along with your suggestions?
Well,...
Post-Courier: PNG presence must reflect climate change solutions
EDITORIAL: By the Post-Courier editors
Prime Minister James Marape has defended the massive cost of sending a 62-strong delegation to the COP26 Climate Summit in...
Respect the right to report on the environment, RSF tells COP26
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and more than 60 environmental journalists of 34 different nationalities have appealed for respect for the right...
‘Don’t fudge with our future’, Māori climate activist warns COP26
Māori climate activist India Logan-Riley speaking on the indigenous challenge to the "colonial project" at the COP26 opening ... “In the US and Canada...
Pacific nations will be mostly unheard at critical COP26 climate summit
RNZ Pacific
Global climate talks have started in Glasgow, Scotland, but most Pacific leaders cannot get there.
While the leaders of four Pacific nations are attending...
Bainimarama briefed on Fiji, Pacific priorities at COP26 to dodge disaster
By Talebula Kate in Suva
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama was briefed yesterday on Fiji’s priority areas ahead of the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) which...
Pacific ‘in peril’ if COP26 doesn’t work, warns regional church leader
By Peter Kenny in Geneva
The Pacific Islands are in grave danger and at the frontline of global climate change and the United Nations Conference...
COP26: Time for New Zealand to show regional leadership on climate...
ANALYSIS: By Nathan Cooper, University of Waikato
As the UN climate summit in Glasgow kicks off tomorrow, it marks the deadline for countries to make...
New protest slaps NZ Rugby over INEOS oil deal blow to...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Greenpeace Aotearoa has again condemned New Zealand Rugby for its "destructive" undermining of the Pacific on climate change after an open...
USP and Canterbury University partner for Pacific climate research
By Timoci Vula in Suva
The University of Canterbury and the University of the South Pacific are partnering in a unique research project that will...
Covid pandemic blows world off course over climate crisis, says Bainimarama
By Timoci Vula in Suva
Nearly two years since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, its global socioeconomic “headwinds” have blown many countries far off...
Marshall Islands as lone Pacific voice at climate summit pleads for...
RNZ Pacific
The Marshall Islands has issued a plea for help and a call to action at the US Leaders Summit on Climate Change.
Addressing the...
Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific
New Zealand has long had a privileged relationship with its Pacific neighbours. Now, in the dawning era of the climate crisis affecting millions of...
By declaring a climate emergency NZ’s Ardern needs to inspire hope,...
ANALYSIS: By David Hall, Auckland University of Technology; Raven Cretney, University of Waikato; and Sylvia Nissen
There is no question that we must act, and...
Joe Biden edges closer to White House, but faces climate policy...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Joe Biden is almost certain to be the next president of the United States, ushering in a welcome return to engagement...
Greens sweep 10 seats in huge NZ win for climate crisis,...
By RNZ News
The Green Party say voters have given a strong signal they are valued in the New Zealand government, and they have ambitions...
How covid-19 has undermined climate change initiatives in the Pacific
By Sri Krishnamurthi, reporting for the Pacific Media Centre
“Climate change may be slower but its momentum is enormous.” – Stuart Chape, Acting Director-General, South...
Indonesian radio gets covid creative to communicate climate crisis
By Zahra Karim Didarali
The covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has brought numerous challenges to the way journalists report and has limited the stories they’re able to...
Labor’s climate policy too little, too late – we must run...
By Will Steffen of the Australian National University
Opposition leader Anthony Albanese’s announcement on Friday that a Labor government in Australia would adopt a target...
Fijian family suing Europe in landmark climate change lawsuit
By RNZ Pacific
A Fijian family may yet have their day in a European court in what is being seen as a landmark case in...
UN chief calls for immediate climate action to ‘save Pacific –...
COMMENTARY: By Dan McGarry in Port Vila
Vanuatu and other Pacific nations can teach a lesson to the world, says UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
“That lesson...
Guterres praises Fiji over leadership in global battle against climate change
UN Webcast reports on the UN Secretary-General António Guterres in Fiji.
By RNZ Pacific
The UN Secretary General António Guterres has praised Fiji as a strong...