114 articles tagged "climate-change"
3 cooperatives have signed up to ensure their members can benefit from the Pacific’s First Meso level Anticipatory Action Pilot Insurance Scheme, which will provide farming groups with insurance cover against tropical
A national symposium for community-led sustainable development initiatives is underway at the Holiday Inn Hotel, Suva, where about 60 representatives around the country, the Government and experts will address national
More than 800,000 people in the Pacific including Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga and Tuvalu will benefit from the USAID climate resilience and adaptation project. This was highlighted by the US Agency for Internatio
Denmark has reassured the Fijian government of their commitment to strengthen support for Fiji in the areas of climate change, renewable energy and issues that matter to Small Islands Developing States. During a co
The climate crisis impacts all areas of life, livelihoods and human security, and in doing so with fierceness not seen before. This was highlighted by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Professor Biman
Climate Change is a very broad topic and we need to raise awareness as there are a lot of things that need to be looked at such as what we eat, what we drink and the environment we stay in that affects our livelihoods.
Action against climate change starts with teaching people how to place their rubbish. This was highlighted by BulaBard Director Alen Ram during the dialogue on the idea of building community resilience to climate c
Six communities in Fiji have already been relocated and 42 are in urgent need of moving in the next decade because of the climate change threats. This has been highlighted by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for
The Fijian Sustainable Bond Framework has been launched at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt. The Government says the Framework is the first of its kind developed by a Small Island Developing State that creates a robu
Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says after three decades of negotiations, loss and damage is finally on the agenda at COP27. In a tweet, he says the Pacific have fought too hard for too long to accept anything
Attorney-General and the Minister responsible for Climate Change, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says all of us face different types of challenges as far as climate change is concerned. The AG highlighted this while officia
The Pacific Conference of Churches is calling for less talk and more action that supports the resilience of Pacific communities affected by climate change at this year’s 27th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC in
Ministers from around 17 Pacific countries and Territories attended the Disaster Ministerial meeting in Nadi and have committed to the inaugural Pacific Disaster Risk Reduction. They have committed to ensuring incl
University of the South Pacific student Salote Nasalo has pleaded to COP26 President Alok Sharma about the future of the Pacific people as she realises that taking up a post-graduate diploma in climate change will not s
COP26 President Alok Sharma is in Fiji to see the impacts of climate change in the Pacific region. He will highlight the urgency for the biggest emitters to take action now and deliver the promise of the Glasgow Cl
We simply cannot settle for anything less than the survival of every Pacific Island Country and that requires that all high emitting economies implement science-based plans to decisively reduce emissions in line with th
The time for band-aid solutions has passed as we are seeing the impacts of climate change daily. This has been highlighted by Vishal Prasad, a Campaigner with Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change when
‘We are not prepared to watch our reefs die, our fish stocks leave, and our communities be lost to the rising seas’. This message was relayed by Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama at the High Level Panel for a S
The single greatest threat to our very existence is climate change. This was the message from Defence Minister as he spoke at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore which was focused on the China-US tensions and the
A preliminary result from a recent survey conducted in the Northern Division has found that more than 90 percent of root crops and rice farmers want to prioritize to reduce and recover quickly from the impacts of climat
