The Forum Chair is committed to maintaining ongoing dialogue with Japan and the IAEA on planned discharge and calls on the region to be wary of nuclear wastewater discharge
Energy and Transport Ministers to be gender champions
Pacific Energy and Transport Ministers tasked to “serve as champions in promoting gender in the energy sector…”
Civil Societies Welcome “Climate Leadership” by Pacific Ministers
Pacific Civil Societies commended the decision of the 5th PRETMM to accelerate efforts for a just and equitable transition, stressing the urgency to act in the face of the existential threat of climate change
Pacific Island nations call on big emitters to fund climate finance
Pacific Island nations call on developed countries to fund climate finance based on the “principles of polluter pays and climate justice” at the end of 5th PRETMM
Call for Pacific Energy Commissioner
The 5th PRETMM calls for the establishment of a Pacific Energy Commissioner to negotiate and advocate energy issues on behalf of the region for a Just and Equitable Transition to a Fossil Fuel Free Pacific
Ministers urged to be inclusive of civil society
Civil societies have urged ministers to secure the highest ambitions for the Pacific through a deep, rapid and sustained emissions reduction in the energy and transportation sectors
New regional programme to increase gender equality in Pacific’s energy sector
A new regional programme to increase women’s participation and gender equality in the Pacific’s energy sector
Fiji says brain drain is a challenge to renewable energy projects
Brain drain is a challenge to Fiji and other Pacific Island countries’ ambition to increase renewable energy supply, says Fiji’s Infrastructure and Meteorological Services Minister
Regenvanu: Fossil Fuel Cost Lives
Vanuatu urged Pacific ministers to lead the charge to accelerate the adoption of “clean, green, abundant and cheap renewable energy” and join the call for a Just Transition to a Fossil Fuel Free Pacific
Vanuatu PM urges Pacific Island nations to commit to fossil fuel free Pacific
Vanuatu urges Pacific Island nations to join countries that have signed a treaty for a fossil fuel free Pacific and accelerate positive development in the energy and transport sectors