As Pacific islanders experience extreme cyclones, what becomes of those in thatched fales? Where do they seek refuge when their homes are destroyed and they do not have the resources to build back?, writes Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson
Tag: climate crisis
Climate change a ‘fundamental’ threat to livelihood of Pacific people – report
Tuvalu immigrant, Kelesoma Saloa, shares the devastating story of why he had to leave his home country because of climate change for the sake of his children and their future
Ten years of loss and damage finance = one year of fossil fuel subsidies
A new report by Greenpeace Australia Pacific discovers that one year of fossil fuel subsidies in Australia could fund up to ten years’ worth of loss and damages in Pacific islands
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
How to move a country: Fiji’s radical plan to escape rising sea levels
The government of Fiji makes a daunting plan to move communities in villages that have been gravely affected by the harsh impacts of the climate crisis even though many are hesitant to leave their homes
Tuvalu first to call for fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty at COP27
Tuvalu makes call at COP27 to end the era of burning fossil fuels, which is the primary cause of the rapidly escalating climate crisis that puts their nation on the verge of extinction
COP27: Pacific leaders want climate change payments
Pacific island leaders urge rich and developed countries to pay ‘loss and damage finances’ to help cope with the existential threat of climate-related issues to Blue Pacific people, islands, and ocean
Why a chain of tiny Pacific islands wants an international court opinion on responsibility for the climate crisis
Vulnerable small island states join Vanuatu in requesting the ICJ to give an advisory opinion on the rights and obligations of states under international law concerning the adverse effects of climate change
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
The climate crisis threatens to rob us not just of our living, but also of our dead
When atoll nations are told that they may have to leave due to rising seas, I think of their fathers’ and mothers’ bones. Climate crisis threatens Pacific island nations – they rob us not just of the living, but also of our dead, writes Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson.