COP27 urged world leaders not to backslide on commitments to cut emissions and to deliver on pledges to help smaller countries deal with the impact of the climate crisis
Tag: climate change
If we protect it, the ocean can help solve the climate crisis
The ocean plays a vital role in moderating global temperatures and countries should use it as a major tool to fight climate change, writes Fiji PM Frank Bainimarama
How do we mourn an island? Where do we mark its grave?
Marshall Islands is uniquely at risk for climate change, islets are disappearing, and it is so dire that we’ve been forced as a nation to completely change the way we plan for our future, writes Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner.
No more drinking water, little food: our island is a field of bones
Banaba in the central Pacific is a microcosm of what has happened to this planet. It’s a place that cannot be brought back into balance without focused and collaborative care, writes Katerina Teaiwa
On Guam there is no birdsong, you cannot imagine the trauma of a silent island
Climate change, invasive species and military expansion have formed an unholy trinity that threatens our small but ancient civilization on the island of Guam, writes Julian Aguon
In my house is a Tuvaluan basket, a tiny piece of an island the world cannot fail
I will never throw away this basket from Tuvalu, an island nation that could become completely uninhabitable and disappear under the sea in the terrifyingly near future, writes Kate Lyons
Vanuatu elevates draft resolution to UNGA requesting an advisory opinion from ICJ on climate change
Humanity must “leave no stone unturned in its effort to address the climate crisis,” says Vanuatu’s special climate envoy
Pacific nations double down on their green demands
Pacific called on IMO member states to cut pollution from ships by at least 80% by 2040 and reach absolute zero by no later than 2050
Crucial coastal protection set to begin under the Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project
Tuvalu set to begin construction of coastal protection infrastructure on Funafuti under the Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project
Four ways we can keep Accelerating Climate Change Financing in the Pacific
There is a critical need to boost climate finance in the Pacific, as the window for taking transformative action is closing, writes ADB Pacific Senior Climate Change Specialist