Pacific climate change study gains $4.5m
The Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies (MBC) at the University of Canterbury (UC) has been awarded $4.5 million by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) for a…
Category: climate change
Pacific Islanders did strike for climate in their own way
Although small in numbers, students, teachers, advocates and many others took part in climate strikes from across the Pacific this week. Samoa, Vanuatu, Tonga, Tuvalu, Fiji and Pacific islanders in…
Marshall Islands declare state of health emergency as dengue cases rise
The Republic of Marshall Islands has issued a proclamation to declare a state of health emergency after an influx in cases of dengue fever were reported. The Declaration called on…
PIDF Leaders endorse Nadi Bay Declaration on the Climate Crisis
The Pacific Islands Development Forum (PIDF) Leaders this week endorsed The Nadi Bay Declaration on the Climate Crisis in the Pacific. The Announcement came as part of the PIDF Leaders…
Why this Time cover is a disgrace to the climate realities of Pacific islanders
There are 11,000 people in Tuvalu who could have been featured on the cover of the Time to demonstrate the vulnerabilities of Pacific people to climate change. Time decided to…
Australia must help protect Pacific from climate change, PNG prime minister says
Australia has a responsibility to protect the Pacific region from the impacts of climate change, PNG’s newly appointed prime minister has said. James Marape told the Guardian Australia had “a…
Some reef islands resilient to climate change: study
The Pacific’s low-lying reef islands are likely to change shape in response to climate change, rather than simply sinking beneath rising seas and becoming uninhabitable as previously assumed, new research…
Top UN climate change official sceptical about relocation as a response to climate change
By Cherelle Jackson POZNAN – The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Mr. Yvo de Boer, has made it clear that islands should be…