Tag: Climate mitigation
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...
China’s Shandong Province expands its climate footprint to the Pacific
By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva
While Japan’s discharge of nuclear waste waters into the Pacific from its Fukushima nuclear plant has been drawing flak across...
Creating ‘sponge cities’ to cope with more rainfall needn’t cost billions...
ANALYSIS: By Timothy Welch, University of Auckland
Tune into news from about any part of the planet, and there will likely be a headline about...
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...
COP27 finale: Leaders debate climate damage funding for Pacific nations
By Rachael Nath, RNZ Pacific journalist
After two weeks of negotiations at the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference (COP27) talks at an Egyptian resort, it...
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...
Adaptation, mitigation and relocation – only Pacific choices, says academic
By Rahul Bhattarai
A leading academic on peace research issues has called for increased policy making efforts to face up to the challenges of Pacific...
