Tag: Climate emergency
‘Frustrated’ USP law students were catalyst for landmark UN climate vote
By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva
There was euphoria at the campus of the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Suva in Fiji last Thursday...
As Pacific islanders, we bear the brunt of the climate crisis....
Monday’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has given a "final warning" to avert global catastrophe. Pacific cabinet ministers call on all world...
Some Pacific nations ‘won’t survive’ if NZ and world drop the...
By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News senior journalist
There is "is much to win by trying" to take action on climate change -- that is a...
IPCC report: world must cut emissions and urgently adapt to climate realities
ANALYSIS: By Bronwyn Hayward, University of Canterbury
This decade is the critical moment for making deep, rapid cuts to emissions, and acting to protect people...
Climate activist ‘Violet’ Coco’s quashed jail sentence highlights police lies
Australian climate emergency protester Deanna “Violet” Coco last week won her appeal ato the delight of supporters. A 15-month jail sentence imposed on her...
Climate strikes: Thousands march in NZ to demand action from government
RNZ News
Thousands of people turned up for climate strikes across Aotearoa New Zealand today -- and briefly staged a sit-in at Christchurch City Council.
School...
David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation
Mediasia Iafor
New Zealand journalist and academic David Robie has covered the Asia-Pacific region for international media for more than four decades.
An advocate for media...
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...
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...
Behind scenes probe of Bougainville struggle for independence tops PJR
Pacific Journalism Review
A Frontline investigative journalism article on the politics behind the decade-long Bougainville war leading up to the overwhelming vote for independence is...
Special report: Dreams, dollars and destruction of a Papuan rainforest
Melanie Reid's video story on the Tanah Merah megaproject. Video: Newsroom
SPECIAL REPORT: By Melanie Reid and Bonnie Sumner of Newsroom
Newsroom.co.nz
An Auckland property developer is...
NZ imported more than a million tonnes of ‘dirty’ coal last...
By Jordan Bond, RNZ News reporter
In the same year that the government declared a climate emergency, imports of an especially dirty type of coal...
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...
Sydney declares a climate emergency – what does that mean in...
ANALYSIS: By Chris Turney in Sydney
Late on Monday night, the City of Sydney became the first state capital in Australia to officially declare a...
Auckland Council declares climate emergency after meeting with youth
By RNZ News
Auckland Council has declared a climate emergency after an Environment Committee meeting today.
The council’s motion was passed unanimously and was met with...
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...
