Tag: Fossil Fuels
Climate justice: Action groups livid over Australia’s submission at ICJ
ABC Pacific
Australia's government is being condemned by climate action groups for discouraging the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from ruling in favour of a...
Climate justice: Vanuatu’s landmark case at ICJ seeks to hold polluting...
RNZ Pacific
Vanuatu's special envoy to climate change says their case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is based on the argument that those...
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...
Climate protests to continue despite 170 charged in Newcastle ‘protestival’
Despite Australia's draconian anti-protest laws, the world’s biggest coal port was closed for four hours at the weekend with 170 protesters being charged --...
COP29: Does NZ have the credibility to lead carbon trading talks?
By Eloise Gibson, RNZ climate change correspondent
New Zealand's Climate Change Minister Simon Watts is going to the global climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan next...
Rising Tide climate crisis ‘Protestival’ to go ahead despite court ruling
The NSW Supreme Court has issued orders prohibiting a major climate protest that would blockade ships entering the world’s largest coal port in Newcastle...
COP29: Pacific countries cannot be conveniently pigeonholed
COMMENTARY: By Reverend James Bhagwan
"We will not sign our death certificate. We cannot sign on to text that does not have strong commitments on...
‘Climate’ CHOGM success for Samoa but what’s in it for the...
COMMENTARY: By Tess Newton Cain
As CHOGM came to a close, Samoa rightfully basked in the resounding success for the country and people as hosts...
‘We have to keep pressuring Australia to do the right thing’,...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/Bulletin editor
Tuvalu's Transport, Energy, and Communications Minister Simon Kofe has expressed doubt about Australia's reliability in addressing the climate...
Vanuatu fights for marine protection at key UN deep-sea mining summit
By Stephen Wright in Kingston, Jamaica
Vanuatu has taken a leading role in a bloc of nations fighting to keep marine environment protection on the...
‘Completely stupid’ – ex-Tuvalu PM plea to NZ to rethink fossil...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
A former Tuvalu prime minister says while the New Zealand government's oil and gas plans show it is concerned...
‘It’s tragic’ – Palau president slams NZ govt’s oil and gas...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
The President of Palau has slammed New Zealand's new government for its oil and gas exploration plans as the...
NZ climate satirist sentenced to 125 hours of community work for...
By Tess Brunton, RNZ News reporter
A Dunedin climate activist has been sentenced to 125 hours of community work after writing a fake email saying...
10 smart ways NZ can be strategic about addressing climate change...
ANALYSIS: By Kevin Trenberth, University of Auckland
The announcement of a partnership between the New Zealand government and the world’s biggest investment manager BlackRock in...
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...
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...
Nick Young: NZ’s climate floods expose stark truth – people paying...
By Nick Young of Greenpeace
My family and I are lucky to have come through it unscathed, but my neighbourhood in Titirangi has been ravaged.
Many...
Auckland floods a future sign – city needs stormwater systems fit...
ANALYSIS: By James Renwick, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
The extraordinary flood event Auckland experienced on the night of January 27, the...
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...
Climate rivalry between secretive autocracy and corrupted democracy
COMMENTARY: By Megan Darby, editor of Climate Home News
When it comes to the world’s two biggest emitters, we are caught between a secretive autocracy...
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...
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,...