Tag: Paris Agreement
Forum chair welcomes Biden’s ‘Blue Pacific’ climate priority for Paris pact
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...
Joe Biden sends a clear message to watching world – America’s...
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...
New Biden era heralds global climate politics switch with US rejoining...
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...
Fiji’s Bainimarama first world leader to congratulate Biden – too early
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...
Joe Biden edges closer to White House, but faces climate policy...
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...
Fiji warns ‘selfish’ countries amid Paris Agreement climate rulebook deadlock
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 and security big focus for Pacific Islands Forum in...
Climate change is a major worry to the Pacific Islands and it was the major talking point at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) earlier...
Indonesia risks ending up with a doomed ‘can’t-do’ climate plan
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...
NZ climate change approach must ‘transcend government’, says report
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...
Paris climate change pact ‘not enough to save us’, warns Fiji...
By Nasik Swami in Suva
Current national contributions by countries to the Paris Agreement on climate change are not enough to save the Pacific, says...
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...
Climate change report will help countries cut emissions
Dr Morgan Wairiu speaking in a clip from the Asia Pacific Report interview. Video: PMC
Report by Kendall Hutt and video by Julie Cleaver in...
Eelco Rohling: We need to get rid of carbon in the...
ANALYSIS: By Professor Eelco Rohling in Canberra
Getting climate change under control is a formidable, multifaceted challenge. Analysis by my colleagues and me suggests that...
Bill McKibben: Stop swooning over Justin Trudeau – he’s a disaster...
OPINION: By Bill McKibben
Donald Trump is so spectacularly horrible that it’s hard to look away – especially now that he’s discovered bombs. But precisely...
COP23 president Bainimarama to ‘reach out’ to Trump over climate
Flashback to Fiji in 2015 and the Pacific call for NZ to do more on climate change. Reporter Niklas Pedersen Video: Pacific Media Centre
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