Tag: Global Warming
Kayak climate protest for Pacific targets PM Turnbull at home
Members of Sydney’s Pacific Islander community and supporters are kayaking down Sydney Harbour to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s harbourside residence today to protest against...
Vlad Sokhin: ‘Warm Waters’ – threat of climate change to low-lying...
By Vanuatu Daily Digest
"Warm Waters’" a photoessay on climate change by Russian photojournalist Vlad Sokhin, is the best piece of reporting on climate change in...
Samoan PM calls on ACP countries to work together on climate...
EMTV News ACP headlines on YouTube.
By Meleasie Goviro in Port Moresby
Representing the Pacific Islands at the official opening of the African Caribbean and Pacific...
Daku has a climate message for the world: ‘Tell them to...
By Ami Dhabuwala and TJ Aumua in Daku village, Tailevu, Fiji
A 50-minute drive out of Suva city is Daku village, a community of 332...
Pacific Island states take lead on landmark UN climate deal
The signing of the Paris Accord on climate change at the United Nations. Video: PBS News Hour clip
By Carole Landry in New York
With their...
Pacific youth face uncertain future over climate change, says leader
TJ Aumua's video report on youth's fears over their homelands. PMC on Demand
By TJ Aumua
The effects of climate change on Pacific island nations like...
Fifth Estate: ‘Bomber’ talks climate change and the impact on Pacific
Michael Timmins (left) and Dr David Robie on Fifth Estate tonight. Video: Slipstream Media
Radio Waatea and The Daily Blog featured the Pacific and climate...
Civil disobedience key tactic in climate change strategy
More than 200 people gathered in Auckland this week to protest against the country’s largest oil industry conference, warning that increased attempts at oil...
Forum wins improved recognition for Pacific climate concerns
The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) has been given observer status in the board of the UN Green Climate Fund (GCF), Secretary-General Dame Meg...
Despite taking lead on global stage, Fiji pays price for climate...
The Pacific nation was already struggling to adapt to rising oceans and increasing temperatures when severe tropical cyclone Winston struck, comments Common Dreams staff...
Bennett admits ‘collective’ action needed to take on climate change
By Thomas Leaycraft of Scoop
Paula Bennett, New Zealand's Minister for Climate Change, has acknowledged that widespread action is needed to tackle climate change.
Making brief...
Climate change action faces ‘fight’ with Big Oil, says McKibben
By Thomas Leaycraft of Scoop
Climate change activists have to be prepared for a confrontation with oil companies that will "flat out lie", says environmental...
Catastrophic glacial meltdown big global risk, says researcher
By Thomas Leaycraft of Scoop
The "window of possibility" for less than 2 degree C temperature rise will close in the next 10 years, says...
‘If we can’t solve climate change, we’ll need Kapiti Island’, says...
By Thomas Leaycraft of Scoop
When Kiribati President Anote Tong told his story about climate change to the United Nations General Assembly, they didn’t listen.
“They...
‘We’re going to lose islands … whole countries,’ says Pacific climate...
By Thomas Leaycraft of Scoop
New Zealand needs to acknowledge that Pacific Island nations face an “ecological holocaust” and “ecocide” thanks to climate change, says...
Act now to avoid tragedy, academic warns politicians on climate
Victoria University Vice-Chancellor Grant Guilford told delegates at the opening of a university-hosted Pacific Climate Change Conference today that politicians need to act now...
Landmark NZ climate change conference opens to ‘unite Pacific’
Kiribati’s President Anote Tong, a leading advocate for the Pacific over climate change, is one the keynote speakers at a landmark conference on the...
Climate crises in post-Paris Pacific – conference tackles key realities
The science is clear, climate change is upon us and nowhere is the impact more serious than in the Pacific.
Next week, Victoria University is...
Pacific ‘must make a big noise – agitate’ about climate change
Small countries need to make a big noise, climate change expert James Renwick says will be his message to the In the Eye of...
Vanuatu heat wave suspected cause for sudden death of fish
By Anita Roberts in Port Vila
Thousands of reef fish of different sizes and species have died suddenly on the reef at Pango village near...
Climate model tool shows warmer South-East Asia future
From SciDev.Net
By Dyna Rochmyaningsih in Jakarta
Scientists in South-East Asia and the United Kingdom’s Met Office have teamed up to develop a model that predicts...
Workers Voice: TPPA protests, climate change post-Paris and Waitangi Day
PlanetFM
Protests against the TPPA protests, the climate change movement post-Paris 2015, and the run up to Waitangi day ...
Unite Union's Joe Carolan talks to...