World Bank approves US$11.5 million grant financing to Tuvalu to improve climate and disaster risk assessment, monitoring, and emergency response, with immediate funds available in case of a natural disaster
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Tuvalu Constitution updated: culture, climate change and decolonisation
Tuvalu’s parliament unanimously passed the Constitution of Tuvalu Act 2023, incorporating crucial amendments on climate change, governance stability, judicial reform, and rights and culture set to take effect on 1 October
Push to amend Tuvalu’s Constitution to add geographical co-ordinates and archipelagic baseline
Tuvalu’s Constitution Review Committee proposes a number of significant amendments to Tuvalu’s Constitution to acknowledge climate change and sea level rise impact on the nation’s territory and statehood
‘Science is also Debatable’: Tuvalu disagrees with Fiji PM Rabuka’s Fukushima stance
While Tuvalu continues to advocate preventing Japan from going ahead with dumping nuclear waste into our Pacific Ocean, it is concerned about Fiji PM’s Fukushima stance
Tuvalu launches world-class coastal hazard modelling tool in the face of growing climate impacts
Tuvalu has been handed over a world-class coastal hazard modelling tool to clearly identify, plan for, and reduce risks associated with the growing climate impacts
Tuvalu welcomes Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior
Greenpeace is in Tuvalu to listen and learn how they can best support and elevate their demands to protect their Pacific friends homes and futures
Tuvalu shares uphill battle with plastic waste
Plastic treaty essential for Tuvalu as it fights an uphill battle with plastic waste. “We’ve done all we can nationally, we now need global cooperation.”
Green shipping corridors must not strand island states
Pacific islands, which have done everything possible to lead ambition, will pay the greatest cost if Green shipping corridors are applied as a blunt instrument – Asela Peneueta
Tuvalu fights back against climate change impacts with national adaptation plan
Tuvalu is fighting for its survival against climate change impacts with a national adaptation plan and recognising the need to pursue a more permanent solution to climate change
Tuvalu’s ‘backup plan’ to create a digital twin in the metaverse
Tuvalu says the impacts of climate change have forced it to create a digital copy of itself in the metaverse. But in the real world, not everyone’s convinced.