Tag: Paris Agreement

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...

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...

By Kate Green , RNZ News reporter A new carbon credit trading deal reached in the final hours of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, has been...

By Sera Sefeti of BenarNews Pacific delegates fear the implications of a Trump presidency and breach of the 1.5 degree Celsius warming target will overshadow...

By Eloise Gibson, RNZ climate change correspondent While attention is focused on economists finding a $500 million-a-year hole in National's tax plans, a similar-sized hole...

By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist Pacific island countries' "relentless" efforts at the UN's specialist agency on shipping, International Maritime...

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,...

ANALYSIS: By Robert McLachlan, Massey University As the Glasgow climate summits gets underway, New Zealand’s government has announced a revised pledge, with a headline figure...

By Peter Kenny in Geneva The Pacific Islands are in grave danger and at the frontline of global climate change and the United Nations Conference...

ANALYSIS: By Nathan Cooper, University of Waikato As the UN climate summit in Glasgow kicks off tomorrow, it marks the deadline for countries to make...

ANALYSIS: By Wesley Morgan, Griffith University The Pacific Islands are at the frontline of climate change. But as rising seas threaten their very existence, these...

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...

RNZ News The climate is changing, faster than we thought - and humans have caused it. Last night, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...

By RNZ Pacific The chair of the Pacific Islands Forum has welcomed the re-entry of the United States to the Paris agreement over climate change. Within...

ANALYSIS: By Scott Lucas, University of Birmingham Politics doesn’t have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path Two weeks after the storming of...

ANALYSIS: By Christian Downie, Australian National University When the US formally left the Paris climate agreement, Joe Biden tweeted that “in exactly 77 days, a...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Fiji's Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama is reported to have become the first world leader to publicly congratulate US President-elect Joe Biden...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Joe Biden is almost certain to be the next president of the United States, ushering in a welcome return to engagement...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Talks to draft the Paris Agreement rulebook remained deadlocked today on traditionally tough issues. Emerging economies - China, India, Brazil and South...

Climate change is a major worry to the Pacific Islands and it was the major talking point at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) earlier...

By Warief Djajanto Basorie Three hundred schoolchildren from the greater Jakarta area sat on a red carpet covering the cavernous Soedjarwo auditorium—named to honour the...

By Kendall Hutt in Auckland Concerns have emerged New Zealand may not meet its obligations under the Paris Agreement if a law on emissions is...