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Advancing Asia’s Priorities on Climate and Development: Takeaways from UNGA and the World Bank–IMF Annual Meetings
Asia Society
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by Meera Gopal and Betty Wang Last month, the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) unfolded as world leaders were grappling with multiple crises, including ongoing wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and challenges stemming from the...
Announcements: CfP Netherlands Yearbook of International Law; Climate Change and Migration Webinar; EHRAC Animated Film; Business and Human Rights Workshop; AI Knut Ipsen Lecture
EJIL: Talk!
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November 3, 2024
1. Call for Papers: Netherlands Yearbook of International Law. The Netherlands Yearbook of International Law is inviting submissions for Volume 55 – ‘The manifold forms of contemporary international legal scholarship’. The volume editors invite...
Adaption finance is important – Prof Prasad
Fijivillage
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While sharing Fiji’s advancements in climate action during the Small States Forum, Deputy Prime Minister Professor Biman Prasad stressed the importance of adaptation financing through the International Development Association’s 21st replenishment....
Climate change to cut deep among Asia, Pacific economies in coming years
Inquirer
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November 2, 2024
FILE PHOTO: This picture taken on December 13, 2022, shows a submerged tomb in a village graveyard, now underwater due to the effects of climate change, in the coastal town of Togoru, some 35 kilometers from Fiji’s capital city Suva. – United...
UN CEDAW Committee Publishes Findings On Afghanistan, Botswana, Chad, Fiji, Ireland, Mexico, San Marino and More
Scoop
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Geneva, 7 July 2025 The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) today issued its findings on Afghanistan, Botswana, Chad, Fiji, Ireland, Mexico, San Marino, Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Tuvalu, after reviewing...
Australia Transfers Guardian Patrol Boat to Tuvalu
The Defense Post
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October 22, 2024
Australia has handed over a Guardian-class patrol boat to Tuvalu as as part of a continuing initiative to enhance security among its allies in the South Pacific. The “Te Mataili III” is the 21st Guardian-class patrol boat Canberra received from...
Pacific news in brief for 7 July
RNZ
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July 7, 2025
Artisanal miners search for gold in the waters downstream from the Panguna mine in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. Photo: OCCRP / Aubrey Belford Bougainville - mining The Bougainville House of Representatives amended the Mining Act last week. The...
Australia Announces New High Commissioner To Tuvalu 23 October
The National Tribune
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October 22, 2024
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Today I announce the appointment of Mr David Charlton as Australia’s next High Commissioner to Tuvalu. Australia and Tuvalu are longstanding partners with shared interests in a peaceful, safe and prosperous...
Fiji’s deputy PM Prasad calls for urgent Climate finance action as…
Pacific News Service
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Fiji’s deputy Prime Minister Biman Prasad has issued a clear mandate to the nation’s COP29 delegation – fight for climate finance and recognition of the Pacific’s special circumstances at the upcoming global summit in Baku, Azerbaijan. Addressing...
PM Christopher Luxon emerges from CHOGM meeting talking climate finance
RNZ
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October 27, 2024
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon Photo: AFP / Manaui Faulalo Analysis - The prime minister and his deputy talked up a $20 million investment in resilience funding in the Pacific and backing an oceans declaration - but questions remain over...
Pacific economy: Growth slowing as post-pandemic rebound fades
Pacific Media Network
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Growth across 11 Pacific island economies has slowed significantly this year to 3.6 per cent after a robust 5.8 per cent expansion in 2023, the World Bank says. In its latest Pacific Economic Update, the World Bank provides an assessment of the...
Australia hands over Guardian-Class Patrol boat to Tuvalu
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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October 17, 2024
In a significant boost to Tuvalu’s maritime security, Australia officially handed over the Guardian-class patrol boat HMTSS Te Mataili III to the Pacific Island nation. The handover ceremony, held in Western Australia, was attended by Tuvalu Prime...
Insuring the future: The reserve bank of Fiji scales up parametric micro-insurance
PreventionWeb
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September 27, 2024
Parametric insurance is poised to expand in Fiji, with the signing of a new partnership between the Reserve Bank of Fiji (RBF), SUN Insurance, Tower Insurance and the InsuResilience Solutions Fund (ISF or the Fund). The Fund is a global programme...
How can Fintech Improve Financial Inclusion in the Pacific Island Countries?
The Fintech Times
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October 11, 2024
Spanning a vast territory, the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) combine to be a similar size to Lithuania, with a similar population too (2.6 million people). Made up primarily of 13 island nations, the PICs are some of the most aid-reliant...
‘Existential Threat’: Tuvalu’s Fight to Survive, Even If It Sinks
EcoWatch
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October 1, 2024
An aerial view of Funafuti, the capital of Tuvalu. Mario Tama / Getty Images Rising sea levels threaten to completely submerge Tuvalu in the coming decades. Facing an unprecedented crisis, officials are not only trying to preserve a shrinking...
The ‘very fabric’ of nations at risk from rising sea levels, says Tuvalu PM Teo
Pasifika Environews
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September 26, 2024
Tuvalu’s Prime Minister Feleti Teo Wednesday called on the world to face the life-or-death challenge of rising sea levels head-on. “Today is our historical opportunity to turn the global tide and to embark on a common path that secures prosperity,...
Sinking Tuvalu fights to keep maritime boundaries amid sea rise
Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Hawaii
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September 24, 2024
FONGAFALE, Tuvalu >> Tuvalu and its 11,000 people, who live on nine atolls scattered across the Pacific, are running out of time. Fukanoe Laafai would like to start a family. But she is struggling to reconcile her plans with rising sea levels that...
Here's how Tuvaluans determined to stay put are fighting to save their island nation
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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September 30, 2024
Talua Nivaga is determined to save his homeland. As the co-founder of Tuvaluan youth climate group Fulifafou, he's watched the rising seas encroach and swallow parts of his island nation. While many Tuvaluans are considering migrating to escape...
Turning waste into energy – a pathway to achieving circular economy
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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October 2, 2024
The possibilities of turning waste into energy and how this can contribute to a circular economy were explored during the Regional Circular Economy workshop being held in Port Vila this week. Waste-to-Energy technologies were highlighted as ways...
Taking matters into our own hands: Pacific aid dependency
The National
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There has been a marked decline in Pacific development and progress against the Sustainable Development Goals since the early 2000s, attributable to the impacts of major disaster events, remoteness of Pacific Island countries (PICs) and distance...