Tonga is getting closer to achieving NDC climate targets as it opens its first utility-scale battery energy storage system project
Tag: Climate
UNCDF launches first Parametric Micro-Insurance Product for Climate Vulnerable Communities in Vanuatu
Vanuatu becomes second country in the Pacific to launch Micro-Insurance Product that will protect climate vulnerable populations against the adverse financial impacts of extreme weather hazards
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
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
The Pacific’s future: ‘It’s either rats or reefs’
Invasive species are driving biodiversity loss in the Pacific. Island nations can fight them if the world helps increase investment in managing invasive species, writes SPREP Director General
Cook Islands partners up to counter climate change
Cook Islands seeks assistance from New Zealand to help their islands impacted by climate change
An urgent call for climate security from Tuvalu’s Minister for Justice, Communication and Foreign Affairs
Tuvalu’s Foreign Minister calls for bold and urgent climate actions to achieve real climate security at the national, regional, and international levels
Journey to COP27: Pacific Women negotiators state their case for 1.5 world
Pacific Women are calling on developed countries to turn pledges and commitments into urgent, bold and tangible action, consistent with the 1.5 degrees pathway
As oceans rise, are some nations doomed to vanish?
Maldives, Tuvalu, the Marshall Islands, Nauru and Kiribati may become uninhabitable by 2100, creating 600,000 stateless climate refugees as sea level rise, according to a study
Journey to COP27: Pacific negotiators strengthen resolve to fight for 1.5 world
With a better understanding of the Pacific’s positions in thematic areas, Pacific delegates advance their fight for survival at COP27