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USINDOPACOM hosts Republic of the Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine
DVIDS - Georgia
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October 25, 2024
HONOLULU, HAWAII, UNITED STATES 10.24.2024 Courtesy Story CAMP H.M. SMITH, Hawaii — Republic of the Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine visited U.S. Indo-Pacific Command headquarters at Camp H.M. Smith during a visit to Honolulu, Oct. 24, 2024....
Landmark funding to protect benefits of tuna against climate change
Television Niue
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February 25, 2025
A significant grant of US$107 million dollars has been awarded to the Conservation International and the Pacific Community to support 14 Pacific countries including Niue. The funding aims to protect the economic and social benefits derived from...
Countries alarmed as US withdrawal delays key UN climate assessment
TRT World
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"It will be vital that all working group contributions to the Seventh Assessment Report are prepared in time," the EU's climate chief, Wopke Hoekstra, and ministers from 17 countries including Britain, Germany, France, Spain, the Marshall Islands...
Anger over climate assessment delays after US exit
Oberon Review
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February 21, 2025
"It will be vital that all working group contributions to the seventh assessment report are prepared in time," the EU's climate chief, Wopke Hoekstra, and ministers from 17 countries including Britain, Germany, France, Spain, the Marshall Islands...
The Rainbow Warrior 1985-2025 || Part 1: French State Terrorism And The End Of Innocence
Scoop
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Immediately after murdering Fernando Pereira and blowing up Greenpeace’s ship the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour, several of the French agents went on a ski holiday in New Zealand’s South Island to celebrate. Such was the contempt the French...
Pacific islands to push for enhanced resource mobilisation at resumed biodiversity...
Pacific News Service
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Pacific Islands will be sitting at the global negotiations table this week, calling for increased funding and support to conserve and protect our Pacific biodiversity. Following the suspension of the Sixteenth Conference of the Parties to the...
Marshall Islands to receive millions from NZ to support natural disasters and climate change
TP+
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August 13, 2024
Photo: BBC News New Zealand will invest $6.2 million in a project aimed at helping the Marshalls to better prepare for and adapt to risks relating to natural disasters and climate change. Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters made the...
Pacific islands to push for enhanced resource mobilisation at resumed biodiversity conference
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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February 25, 2025
Pacific Islands will be sitting at the global negotiations table this week, calling for increased funding and support to conserve and protect our Pacific biodiversity. Following the suspension of the Sixteenth Conference of the Parties to the...
Marshall Islands: MFAT gives $6.2m to adapt to rising sea levels
Te Ao Maori News
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The Marshall Islands will receive $6.2 million from Aotearoa’s foreign minister to adapt to climate change, as rising sea levels and strengthening typhoons put the island nation at greater risk. “New Zealand is committed to addressing the ‘Blue...
Concern over delay in climate assessment
Gulf Daily News Online
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The European Union, Britain and climate-vulnerable developing countries have raised concerns about delays to the next global assessment of climate change, by the UN’s climate science panel, after the US administration withdrew from the process....
Countries warn against delaying global climate assessment after US exit
KFGO - North Dakota
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February 21, 2025
By Kate Abnett and Valerie Volcovici BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The European Union, Britain and climate-vulnerable developing countries have raised concerns about delays to the next global assessment of climate change, by the U.N.’s climate...
14 Pacific Island countries receive a major grant to manage one third of the world’s tuna in the face of the climate crisis
Pacific Community (SPC)
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Fololina Avia, received an ADB funded small business grant to expand her "Lady Edwina" fishing company and stall at the Apia fish market. Copyright Asian Development Bank/ Flickr Creative Commons The programme, with a total value of US$156.8 M –...
‘Weak plans mean a bleak future’: Most countries miss deadline to submit new national climate plans
Euronews
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February 11, 2025
Just a handful of countries have submitted their NDCs on time, including the UK and Brazil. The deadline for countries to submit their latest national climate plans has passed and most big polluters have missed the mark. Just 11 of the 195 parties...
Japan, Marshall Islands boat builders maintaining age-old traditions
Marshall Islands Journal
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October 10, 2024
EVE BURNS* Ama Town, Japan – Separated by nearly 2,400 miles, a Marshall Islands program and an American in Japan are working to rebuild and maintain a thousand-year old boat building tradition. Howard Rice is a renowned boat builder and maritime...
Ghana misses 2035 climate targets submission as 13 countries meet deadline
Joy FM
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February 19, 2025
Ghana is among the countries that missed the February 10 deadline for submitting 2035 climate targets, while 13 other nations successfully met the requirement under the Paris Agreement, highlighting a troubling absence of political will in...
'Lessons of nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands are lessons for the world' - UNOHCHR
RNZ
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October 7, 2024
A file photo from July 2014 shows an atomic bomb explosion in Bikini Atoll. Photo: STF / AFP The UN Human Rights Council has held a dialogue meeting to examine the nuclear testing legacy in the Marshall Islands. UN News reports that OHCHR has...
UN rights council examines nuclear legacy consequences in Marshall Islands
UN News
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October 4, 2024
Research conducted by the UN human rights office, OHCHR, revealed that 67 nuclear tests performed between 1946 and 1958 by the United States Government in the Marshall Islands left communities displaced and contributed to radioactive land and sea...
Plastic pollution could put 2.3 million Pacific Islanders’ livelihoods at stake
Pacific News Service
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By Sanjeshni Kumar In seven to eight years, the Pacific will no longer be able to rely on the ocean for food security or as a source of livelihood as it does today because of plastic pollution. Experts say that by 2030, up to 53 million metric...
UN expert on internally displaced persons to visit the Republic of the Marshall Islands
The National Tribune
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October 4, 2024
OHCHR GENEVA – The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Paula Gaviria Betancur, will conduct a country visit to the Republic of the Marshall Islands from 5 to 15 October 2024. Gaviria Betancur will assess the...
50+ Nations Rally Behind 6PAC+ Call For A Levy To Enable Equitable Shipping Climate Measures In London
Scoop
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London, 14 Feb 2025 –London, [Date] – The 6PAC+ Alliance, a coalition of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) from the Pacific, Africa, and the Caribbean, along with key allies, have arrived in Lond ready to drive ambitious climate action at the...