France calls on the ban of deep sea mining, an activity that Pacific civil society groups and movements have been pushing to prohibit due to its detrimental effects on their islands’ marine environments
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Building Pacific resilience in the virtual space
SPREP’s e-Learning platform, which hosts virtual training such as the Pacific Climate Change Centre Training Courses and the Inform Project e-Learning Series, highlighted at COP27 side event
Meaningful action to address climate crisis begins now, Kiribati to COP27
Kiribati reminded world leaders that climate change is real and it continues to suffer the consequences of decisions made at the annual conference but are not followed up, financed and implemented
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
Pacific Islands students fighting climate change amplify their voices at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh
Pacific Islands students urge world leaders to “come up with robust actions towards climate change and make the Paris Agreement come to life” at COP27
Financing loss and damage a moral imperative, global leaders at COP27 told
UN Secretary-General told world leaders that the Loss and Damage Finance Facility should be regarded as a “moral imperative”
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
COP27 opens with call for world leaders not to backslide on emission reduction commitments
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
WTO fisheries agreement will not help poverty alleviation in least developed countries
WTO must heed the call by small fisherfolks and discipline those responsible for the negative impacts of fisheries subsidies, says PANG Campaigner as 16 percent of the total global fisheries subsidies reach the small-scale fishers while at least 90 percent to large scale industrialised fisheries
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