Tag: Climate Finance
COP29: Pacific takes stock of ‘baby steps’ global climate summit
By Sera Sefeti in Baku, Azerbaijan
As the curtain fell at the UN climate summit in Baku last Sunday, frustration and disappointment engulfed Pacific delegations...
COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’
RNZ Pacific
The United Nations climate change summit COP29 has "once again ignored" the Pacific Islands, a group of regional climate advocacy organisations say.
The Pacific...
Trump win, 1.5C warming breach weigh on UN climate ‘finance COP’
By Sera Sefeti of BenarNews
Pacific delegates fear the implications of a Trump presidency and breach of the 1.5 degree Celsius warming target will overshadow...
Apia Ocean Declaration to be ‘crown jewel’ of CHOGM climate ‘fight...
By Sialai Sarafina Sanerivi in Apia
The Ocean Declaration that will be agreed upon at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) this week will...
COP27: one big breakthrough but ultimately an inadequate response to the...
ANALYSIS: By Matt McDonald, The University of Queensland
For 30 years, developing nations have fought to establish an international fund to pay for the “loss...
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...
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...
Pacific Forum welcomes NZ climate aid boost, urges collective action
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist
The head of the Pacific Islands Forum says New Zealand's climate aid boost augurs well heading into COP26, and...
Biden’s pledge a start to restoring US climate change credibility
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A Chinese official characterised the US return to the international climate scene, not unfairly, as a “truant getting back to class”,...
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...
Fiji to set up relocation trust fund for villages hit by...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A Relocation Trust Fund will be set up by the Fiji government to help villages facing the threat of climate change.
Economy...
Fiji climate lead challenged Western consultants’ influence before losing job
ANALYSIS: By Megan Darby, deputy editor of Climate Home News
Fiji’s presidency of the United Nations climate talks was an unprecedented opportunity for the Pacific...
‘We’re losing the climate change battle,’ warns Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron appeals to the world to do more on climate change. Video: Al Jazeera
French President Emmanuel Macron has delivered a rallying...
‘Live, thrive in a new place’ – financing Pacific climate adaptation
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
By the end of the 21st century, sea levels are expected to rise by a maximum of 1.5 metres as...
Oxfam slams NZ’s Pacific climate funds – too ‘business focused’
Oxfam New Zealand says the Government's finance towards Pacific climate change is business focused and does not benefit families in need.
Rachael Le Mesurier, Oxfam...
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...