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‘To the backbenchers’: Fiji Labour Party tells Finance Minister Prasad
Islands Business
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September 24, 2024
Financial constraints are the most formidable challenge to media freedom in the Pacific Islands, according to the Pacific Islands Media Freedom Index (PIMFI) released at the 2024 Pacific Media Summit today. Robert Iroga, editor of Solomon Business...
Australia’s coalmine decision ‘a direct threat to our collective future’: Tuvalu MP
Islands Business
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October 1, 2024
Solomon Islands believes the Paris Agreement is failing humanity and so the world needs a stronger legally binding framework on Climate Change. The Paris Agreement is an international treaty on Climate Change signed in 2016. The treaty covers...
Note to Australian Broadcasting Corporation News, Pacific Island Sea Level Projections Are Wrong
The Heartland Institute
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September 30, 2024
A September 26th article on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) website, titled “Sea level rise inevitable for Pacific Islands despite future greenhouse gas emissions reduction, NASA finds,” suggests that small island nations are doomed...
Australia And New Zealand Back A Second Phase Of The Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project To Beat Sea Level Rise
Scoop
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TCAP Tuvalu Site (Photo/Supplied) 18 September 2024 Funafuti, Tuvalu: The Governments of Australia and New Zealand are funding a second phase of the successful Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project (TCAP-II) to scale up climate resilient coastal...
Exclusive-World Bank President Ajay Banga in Tuvalu says youth skills key to climate change plan
News India Times
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September 8, 2024
Tuvalu’s Prime Minister Feleti Teo and visiting World Bank president Ajay Banga watch a welcoming ceremony in Funafuti, Tuvalu September 6, 2024. REUTERS/Kirsty NeedhamFUNAFUTI, Tuvalu (Reuters) – World Bank President Ajay Banga said on Friday,...
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...
Almost the entire country of Tuvalu is vulnerable to flooding, NASA found.
Bangladesh Sangsbad Sangstha
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Almost the entire country of Tuvalu is vulnerable to flooding, NASA found. NASA climate models show 'business as usual' will flood Pacific Islands SYDNEY, Sept 26, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Within 30 years, sea levels will rise at least 15 centimetres on...
Crossing Judicial Boundary in Tuvalu hotel. Ficac's new Commissioner Malimali - drunk, dripping wet after swim -crashed out in Judge's room. He was presiding over her client, former Tuvalu PM's abuse of office trial
Fiji Leaks
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September 27, 2024
*On 13 March 2017, the Tuvalu Court of Appeal upheld an appeal by the Crown on the sole ground that the personal interactions outside Court between Justice Norman Franzi and counsel for Lelemia, BARBARA MALIMALI, meant that the judgment of...
Nasa climate models show ‘business as usual’ will flood Pacific Islands
Daily Express Malaysia
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September 26, 2024
Nasa climate models show ‘business as usual’ will flood Pacific Islands Published on: Thursday, September 26, 2024 By: AFP SYDNEY: Within 30 years, sea levels will rise at least 15cm on several Pacific island nations, regardless of what cuts are...
Tourist arrivals help Pacific economic growth - ADB
RNZ
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September 25, 2024
Bob Lisale drinks coconut milk as he watches the king tides pound the coast of Funafuti Atoll, 19 February 2004, home to nearly half of Tuvalu's entire population of 11,500. Tuvaluans fear that global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions,...
Nasa climate models show Pacific islands will flood in ‘business as usual’ scenario
The Straits Times
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September 26, 2024
Nasa researcher Ben Hamlington said rising seas vary from region to region – due to melting glaciers or topography of coastlines – but Pacific projections were “surprisingly consistent”. Within the next 30 years under a business-as-usual scenario,...
NASA climate models show 'business as usual' will flood Pacific Islands
Channel News Asia
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September 26, 2024
NASA researcher Ben Hamlington said rising seas vary from region to region - due to melting glaciers or topography of coastlines - but Pacific projections were "surprisingly consistent". Within the next 30 years under a business-as-usual scenario,...
FICAC must arrest and charge NFP leader and Finance Minister BIMAN Prasad. His statutory declarations under the Political Parties Act 2013 is 'dripping wet' with criminality. His lies for ten years to cover up Lotus link
Fiji Leaks
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September 30, 2024
*The charges against Biman Prasad had already been drafted and sanctioned before Barbara Malimali was parachuted in as new FICAC Commissioner by Attorney-General Graham Leung and acting CJ TEMO. Fijileaks to FICAC: Here are two counts to start...
SI amongst 124 nations who voted for UN resolution demanding Israel out of West Bank
Solomon Star
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September 30, 2024
SOLOMON Islands and 123 other United Nations member states have voted in favor of a resolution demanding that Israel ‘brings to an end without delay its unlawful presence’ in what the UN perceives as the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The...
Australia and New Zealand back a second phase of the Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project to beat sea level rise
The Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project
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Funafuti, Tuvalu: The Governments of Australia and New Zealand are funding a second phase of the successful Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project (TCAP-II) to scale up climate resilient coastal protection efforts to combat climate change. Construction...
Protecting Tuvalu’s Nanumea Island from Sea Level Rise
Pasifika Environews
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September 19, 2024
Nanumea, the fourth largest and most remote island of Tuvalu, is located 650 kilometers north of the nation’s capital. The outer island’s white shores are home to a population of 485 people and around 180 houses, only accessible to the public by...
World Bank President calls for bold reforms to tackle global challenges
Pacific News Service
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World Bank Group President Ajay Banga Tuesday laid out an ambitious vision for the institution, calling for fast and bold reforms to address intertwined global challenges like climate change, inequality, and economic fragility. “Our mission is...
K1billion in foreign exchange backlog in PNG banks, forum told
Islands Business
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September 26, 2024
Nauru’s President David Adeang declared in a speech to the United Nations that the international community must not let “fear and misinformation” block the exploitation of sea-bed minerals that could be critical to the global energy transition....
UN Overwhelmingly Passes Resolution Seeking Israel’s Ouster From West Bank, Gaza
The New York Sun
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September 18, 2024
The United Nations General Assembly has passed a resolution proposed by the Palestinian Authority that orders Israel to retreat from East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza, in spite of warnings from American and Israeli delegates that the measure...
UN votes 124-14 to strip Israel of right to self-defense in Gaza, West Bank
The Jerusalem Post
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September 18, 2024
The United Nations General Assembly voted 124-14 on Wednesday to strip Israel of the right to self-defense in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem. The test of the resolution was based on the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion in...