Tag: Pacific climate
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...
Pacific Climate Change Centre step closer – building starts next June
The Pacific Islands are a step closer to having their very own Pacific Climate Change Centre to be hosted at the Secretariat of the...
‘If young people act over climate change, our leaders will listen’
A Pacific Media Centre report on a "united Pacific voice" on climate change at the Pacific Development Forum in Suva last September that got...
Pacific example can help ‘save the world’ on climate change, says...
By Ami Dhabuwala in Suva
The people of the Pacific have been handed a big challenge over the weekend – mobilise for urgent climate change...
Paris climate deal signing ceremony – what it means and why...
By Damon Jones and Bill Hare
The world took a collective sigh of relief in the last days of 2015, when countries came together to...
Fiji’s climate change patterns hit pristine coral reefs hard
Almost two months following the most devastating cyclone to have ever hit Fiji, the country’s people and biodiversity are still struggling towards recovery, Anuja...
Images: Police mount ‘Operation Drag’ to remove protesters inside Sky City
Most news media took pictures of the climate change "civil disobedience" protest today at vantage points outside the SkyCity Auckland Convention Centre.
But Asia Pacific...
Paris climate summit ‘positive – but not enough for Pacific’, says...
By Thomas Leaycraft of Scoop
Last year's COP21 Paris agreement on climate change was "a positive outcome' but did nowhere near enough to address the...
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 Warrior: ‘It’s scary … you’ve seen what they do to...
By Thomas Leaycraft of Scoop
Praying for action on climate change and a kava ceremony in the heart of the Catholic Church were all part...
Pacific nations need to ‘weave together’ – act now over climate,...
Pacific nations need to weave together and act now to avoid tragedy as the effects of climate change take their toll on the region,...
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...