For any future responses and management to our environment and climate change, traditional knowledge will continue to play a key role and there is no way we can discount it, says Minister Regenvanu
Category: Vanuatu
Parties predicting a failure of COP27 without a loss and damage finance facility
The creation of Loss and Damage finance facility will determine the success or failure of collective leadership here at COP27, says Vanuatu’s Climate Change and Environment Minister
Vanuatu’s director of women relishes her role as a technical co-ordinator for negotiators on gender and climate change for PSIDS
Negotiators on gender and climate change are glad PSIDS through G77 and AOSIS support the call for a simplified climate financing mechanism available for women, local and indigenous communities
Vanuatu’s golden yam, a successful climate resilient foot crop developed over 15 years
Vanuatu’s climate-resilient Golden Yam can be used as a source of food security and livelihood for people in Vanuatu, says director of the country’s department of agriculture
Vanuatu to announce at COP27 its draft proposed UNGA Resolution on rights of people against the adverse impacts of climate change
Vanuatu to seek more support for the UN Resolution to clarify the obligation of the States under international law to protect the rights of the present and future generations against the adverse effects of climate change
Vanuatu President seeks support for ICJ resolution at climate summit
Vanuatu President calls for urgent climate justice resolution for his nation suffering from the climate crisis
The Pacific is now out of time, Vanuatu’s former PM
Vanuatu’s former PM fears that the Pacific is now out of time and will succumb to climate change, an existential threat that affects the livelihoods, security, and well-being of Pacific islanders
Vanuatu implores world leaders to vote for International Court of Justice Climate Resolution
Vanuatu appealed to all leaders at COP27 to Vote in favor of the ICJ climate Resolution to put human rights at the center of climate change decision-making
‘Teaching our children from books, not the sea’: how climate change is eroding human rights in Vanuatu
The people of Vanuatu are not just victims of climate change but “real people with dignity and dreams” who are losing all their human rights and are frightened for the future of their children from this global catastrophe, write authors
In 1991, tiny Vanuatu already nailed the climate conversation
More than 30 years since Vanuatu raised the question “Who should pay for climate catastrophe?”, the issue of irreversible “loss and damage” from the climate crisis is set to be one of the central issues at COP27