New Caledonia to present a plan to power its nickel factories using 50 percent renewable energy by the year 2030
Tag: environment
Professor Ratuva: let’s call it what it is, a climate crisis
A professor of Pacific studies says the term “climate crisis” is now being used to adequately describe the dramatic changes taking place in the Pacific and globally as we are in the midst of it.
‘The Pacific can’t survive if richest corporations and governments continue to put profits over people and planet’
Vanuatu PM warns that the survival of the Pacific is in peril if polluting countries continue to put profit over people and the planet.
Pacific Parliamentarians Alliance on Deep Sea Mining calls for more commitments to safeguarding our ocean from deep sea mining
The political momentum is growing in the Pacific region on Deep Sea Mining with the launch of the Pacific Parliamentarians Alliance on DSM, says PPADSM Chair
Trees shade the way to positive change
The Isi Akson project in the Solomon Islands is initiating local actions that provide nature-based solutions for climate change and biodiversity loss
Use sand resources ‘wisely’ or risk development fallout – UNEP report
Given our dependency on sand, the UNEP report finds sand must be recognised as a strategic resource with multiple roles in the environment and its extraction and use needs to be rethought
The shameful U.S nuclear history in the Marshall Islands
After decades of interfering in the Marshall Islands with nuclear testing, disposal of radioactive waste, and human experimentation, U.S leaders are considering a formal apology, writes Edward Hunt
Raising the bar to keep temperatures and sea levels low across the Pacific
The recent IPCC report finds that limiting global warming to 1.5°C is only possible if global leaders commit to taking immediate and strong action, writes Prof Mark Howden and Ofa Ma’asi-Kaisamy
Safeguarding the Blue Pacific from any further Nuclear contamination
A panel of global experts to provide independent scientific and technical advice to Pacific nations regarding Japan’s plan to discharge treated nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Oceans
Ocean Protectors: How the old ways of Protecting the Ocean are new again in Fiji
Nataleira community renew the old ways of protecting the ocean to ensure future generations are aware of the importance of oceans and assist Fiji’s oceans commitment