Tag: Pacific climate
‘Grassroots action’ could address climate change in Micronesia
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ journalist
A new report has found practical solutions to address climate change in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), including raising...
UN adopts Vanuatu-led resolution in ‘epic win’ on climate change
RNZ Pacific
The UN General Assembly has adopted a Vanuatu-led resolution calling for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on climate...
Honiara doesn’t want to be forced to choose sides, says Foreign...
RNZ Pacific
Solomon Islands Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele says the country joined an agreement with the United States only after changes to wording relating to...
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...
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,...
Pacific, EU launch landmark ‘blue green’ climate alliance
RNZ Pacific
Pacific and European Union negotiators have launched the Blue Green Alliance at the COP26 Conference of Parties' climate summit in Glasgow.
The EU's Ambassador...
Pasifika climate activist’s cry to COP: ‘We’re not drowning, we’re fighting’
By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News climate reporter
A New Zealand Pasifika climate activist has told the UN climate meeting that young Pacific people are not...
Pacific nations will be mostly unheard at critical COP26 climate summit
RNZ Pacific
Global climate talks have started in Glasgow, Scotland, but most Pacific leaders cannot get there.
While the leaders of four Pacific nations are attending...
Bainimarama briefed on Fiji, Pacific priorities at COP26 to dodge disaster
By Talebula Kate in Suva
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama was briefed yesterday on Fiji’s priority areas ahead of the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) which...
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...
There’s no time left for empty climate promises, says Pacific activist
By Dominic Godfrey, RNZ Pacific Journalist
The Pacific's coral reef systems and coastal fisheries are set for extinction if wealthy nations don't drastically and immediately...
Pacific Climate Warriors win global award as struggle gets ‘personal’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A Pacific Climate Warrior today told of personal struggles that impact on island people in the region and how this inspires...
Indigenous Pacific knowledge to help save the ocean
By RNZ Pacific
Indigenous Pacific knowledge should inform the science to save the world's oceans.
That was the consensus among Pacific ocean scientists and other regional...
Guterres praises Fiji over leadership in global battle against climate change
UN Webcast reports on the UN Secretary-General António Guterres in Fiji.
By RNZ Pacific
The UN Secretary General António Guterres has praised Fiji as a strong...
Climate change advocacy calls for more ‘action’ response to Ardern’s UN...
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern recently addressed the UN General Assembly about the reality of climate change in the Pacific, and the threat inaction holds...
More frontline research ‘by Pacific for Pacific’ plea at climate summit
Trailer for the controversial climate change documentary Anote’s Ark – former Kiribati President Anote Tong opened the first Pacific Climate Change Conference in Wellington...
Strong leadership needed to drive COP Pacific climate goals, says Greenpeace
"Together, we must take action to protect our world" - Shalvi Shakshi's inspirational climate story. Video: UNICEF
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Greenpeace has called for climate...
Paris climate agreement ‘still best avenue’ for solutions, says Forum
The European Union and China step up climate collaboration. Video: Al Jazeera
Pacific Media Centre News Desk
The Pacific Islands Forum remains committed to the Paris...
Coal comfort: Pacific nations on carbon collision course with Australia
By Dr Wesley Morgan in Suva
Uniquely vulnerable to the impacts of a warming world, Pacific island countries have long been considered the front-line of...
Fiji assignment enlightens aspiring climate change journalists
By Denise Yeo
A two-week journalism stint in Fiji, dubbed “Bearing Witness”, has lent new perspectives on the effects of climate change on AUT journalism...