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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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
“Climate change is now everyones problem, it involves health, foreign affairs, agriculture and even finance, we are now giving them ownership of adaptation plans for Samoa,” said Anne Rasmussen, Principle Climate Change for Samoa.