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Trump win, 1.5C warming breach weigh on UN climate ‘finance COP’
Asia Pacific Report
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November 11, 2024
By Sera Sefeti of BenarNews Pacific delegates fear the implications of a Trump presidency and breach of the 1.5 degree Celsius warming target will overshadow negotiations on climate finance at the UN’s annual COP talks that have started in...
Trump win, 1.5 C warming breach weigh on UN COP climate finance talks
RNZ
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November 11, 2024
By Sera Sefeti, BenarNews COP29 logo is seen in Baku, Azerbaijan on 17 September 2024. Photo: Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via AFP Pacific delegates fear the implications of a Trump presidency and breach of the 1.5 degree Celsius warming target will...
Cop29 live: oil bosses given red carpet treatment at climate summit
The Guardian
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November 15, 2024
Red carpet treatment revealed for oil bossesFossil fuel bosses and lobbyists are not just attending Cop29 - at least 123 oil and gas company bosses and staff were invited here as “guests” by the Azerbaijani government and given host country...
Regional judicial symposium underway
Solomon Star
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June 19, 2025
The judicial Symposium 2025 got underway on Wednesday at the Pacific Forum Agency Fisheries (FFA) Conference Centre. It brought together Chiefs Justices from Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, and Tuvalu, alongside other senior...
Latest digital tools to track climate hazards rolled out across Tuvalu
The Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project
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Damlamian noted that the dashboard is part of a larger programme of work, supporting Tuvalu’s increased institutional capacity to make risk-informed decisions. “A key component of the programme aims to strengthen Tuvalu’s technical capacity to...
Fear and speculation mount after another tanker is hit by unexplained blast
Lloyd's List
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INSIDE the flooded engine room of Vilamoura (IMO: 9529293), crew members have documented several shrapnel holes left in the deck after an explosion ripped through the tanker on Friday. The blast left the suezmax, operated by George Economou’s TMS...
UH faculty, students lead discussions at international environmental conference
University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
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Reading time: 2 minutesProfessor Bob Richmond and other organizers and leaders at the Pacific Judicial Council Environmental Conference. The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa played a pivotal role in the Pacific Judicial Council’s (PJC) Environmental...
Pacific atolls face $10bn climate fight
BusinessLIVE
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Sydney — Adapting to a sea level rise of up to half a metre will cost the three most vulnerable Pacific atoll states nearly $10bn, or the equivalent to about 20 years of GDP, the World Bank warns in a new report. Kiribati, Tuvalu and Marshall...
MEDIA BRIEFING: Major Pacific climate report launched at COP29
Scimex Newsfeed
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November 11, 2024
Funder: This research was funded by Aotearoa New Zealand’s International Development Cooperation Programme — Ngā Hoe Tuputupu-mai-tawhiti. The views expressed in this research and associated publication are those of the authors, and are...
International Court Releases Detailed Hearing Schedule For Climate Change Opinion
Forbes
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THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS - APRIL 09: A general view of the hall in a public hearing at the ... [+] International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, the Netherlands on April 09, 2024. T (Photo by Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu via Getty Images)Anadolu via...
Authorities prevent environmental disaster
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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November 13, 2024
QUICK action by PNG authorities has saved a powerless oil tanker from a potentially hazardous grounding on the PNG edge of the Great Barrier Reef off Kupiano in Central Province. The Chinese-owned oil tanker, Ding Heng 27, carrying 800,000 litres...
Global carbon deal agreed even as US warns climate may be on ‘back burner’
The Financial Times
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November 11, 2024
Kenza Bryan in London, Attracta Mooney in Baku and Aime Williams in Washington November 11 2024 Jump to comments sectionPrint this page Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington...
LETTER: Climate change, ocean heat stress, Micronesia reefs
Pacific Daily News
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Many fishermen and divers have noticed recent heat-stress events across Micronesia. The end of the 2024 summer marked the fourth major ocean heat stress event across Micronesia in the past decade. As a result of heat stress, corals turn white and...
Stop calling people ‘climate refugees’
Pacific News Service
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By Kalia Ruth Barkai Despite the rejection of the term “climate refugee” by the United Nations refugee agency, and the International Organisation on Migration (IOM), the term persists in popular media. On Wednesday, the phrase was even added to...
Largest Pacific climate-adaptation study launched at COP29 | University of Canterbury
The National Tribune
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November 8, 2024
Led by Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) and the University of the South Pacific (USP), the three-year study involved over 100 scholars and community experts working across 16 Pacific Island Countries and Territories...
Taiwan’s Role in Driving Climate Action and Regional Sustainability By Tsaiying Lu, Meng-Hui Lin, Chen-Yen Chang, Elizabeth Frost, and Yu-Ping Yang With ongoing disputes over climate finance at the U.N. level, regional efforts could fill the gap – and …
The Diplomat
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The upcoming United Nations climate summit, COP29, has been hailed as the “Finance COP,” as countries are expected to significantly scale up climate finance by adopting the clumsily named New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG)....
Open call for expressions of interest: Technical assistance to develop climate change adaptation investment plans
PreventionWeb
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November 4, 2024
The National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network has launched an open call for countries to submit expressions of interest (EOIs) in receiving technical assistance to develop climate change adaptation investment plans. With funding from the...
Operation Kurukuru combats IUU fishing to secure sustainable fisheries future
Solomon Star
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November 3, 2024
Strengthening the fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing to promote sustainable fisheries and enhancing maritime security across the Pacific are key outcomes of Operation Kurukuru, which came to a close on Friday....
Reinforcing the links between the law and Pacific fisheries' sectors
RNZ
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June 18, 2025
The Judicial Symposium 2025 opened on Wednesday in Honiara, bringing together Regional Chief Justices of Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu. Photo: Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency Justice experts and fisheries...
Yet another big climate promise was made last year - so what’s happened so far?
Sky News
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November 3, 2024
It's 13 December 2023. Excited reports of a "landmark" global climate agreement reverberate around the world from the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. At around 11am, weary diplomats with circles under their eyes from fierce, all-night negotiations...