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Natural Disaster Statistics 2024 – By Type, Country, Death Toll, Region, World Risk Index and Safety Measures
Hollywood Gazette
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August 24, 2024
Natural Disaster Statistics 2024 – By Type, Country, Death Toll, Region, World Risk Index and Safety Measures August 18, 2024 — Introduction There has been a tremendous increase in natural disasters worldwide in the last two decades, along with...
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...
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...
Pacific Ocean Commissioner: Op -ED – Ripples to Waves:
Island Times
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July 1, 2025
By Dr Filimon Manoni, Pacific Ocean Commissioner KOROR, 30 JUNE 2025 (PIFS) — It’s been two weeks since the curtains fell on the third UN Ocean Conference. At this largest ever ocean summit, the Pacific voice echoed as a collective, calling for...
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...
Ghiro reminds summit delegates of the ocean’s sustainability
Solomon Star
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February 26, 2025
Solomon Islands Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Nestor Ghiro has reminded the more than 300 delegates participating in the 2025 Honiara Summit of the importance of managing the oceans and marine resources. Minister Ghiro issued this...
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 –...
‘Dawn of a new era’: First-ever Niue festival encourages cultural revival
Pacific Media Network
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Excitement is at an all-time high for Niue communities in New Zealand, as a first-ever festival brings together hundreds of tagata Niue. The Hologa Niue festival kicks off this Saturday, and Three Star Nation Strategic Director Eunique Ikiua says...
Niue tackles teacher shortage
Pacific Media Network
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Niue is in critical need of teachers for the new school year. According to the Broadcasting Corporation of Niue, there are 15 teacher vacancies; 11 at Niue high school and four at Niue primary school. Niue’s Department of Education and the Niue...
‘Toitū te marae o Tangaroa’ - Mana Moana navigates sustainable fisheries for the future
Te Ao Maori News
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February 20, 2025
Nō te terenga a ngā mātua tīpuna i Hawaiki, ki ngā mahi hao ika i ēnei rā, ko te mana moana tonu tērā, e toitū tonu nei, e toitū tonu nei. “Toitū te marae o Tangaroa, toitū te tangata,” te kī a Robert Pouwhare, kaituhi o te pukapuka Mana Moana:...
Tjibaou on New Caledonia talks in Paris: “We want to resolve this now”
Islands Business
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June 30, 2025
Koror, Palau-It’s been two weeks since the curtains fell on the third UN Ocean Conference. At this largest ever ocean summit, the Pacific voice echoed as a collective, calling for more global ocean accountability, and offering transformational...
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...
Pacific Islands focus: climate emergencies, Trump’s impact and concerning whooping cough outbreaks
Croakey Health Media
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February 6, 2025
Introduction by Croakey: Welcome to the official launch of a new monthly column at Croakey, Pacific Islands focus! Isabelle Zhu-Maguire, PhD candidate at the School of Regulation and Governance within the Australian National University, will be...
Enabling Niue to access climate finance
Pacific News Service
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Accessing climate finance to help build a resilient Niue is at the core of ongoing work by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) through the Pacific Climate Change Centre (PCCC). Building capacity to help achieve...
Paradise lost? One in three want to leave sinking islands behind
The Times
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They live among their gardens on tropical islands where the average temperature is a clement 28C but almost a third of people in the Pacific nation of Tuvalu want to flee by using a climate change escape visa. Australia has been offering the visas...
A drop in the ocean? Pacific nations tap local know-how for marine conservation
South China Morning Post
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June 27, 2025
Pacific island nations are racing to enhance marine conservation, establishing sweeping “no-take” zones and pledging to sustainably manage vast swathes of their territorial waters despite facing limited resources and geopolitical pressure. Among...
Niue releases leaf-feeding beetle to control spread of invasive air potato vines
Television Niue
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November 6, 2024
Niue will become the first country in the Pacific to welcome a leaf-feeding beetle that researchers hope will control the spread of the invasive air potato vines or known locally as hoi. A team from the Manaaki Whenua– Landcare Research in New...
Climate change pushback if Trump wins, warns rights group
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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November 6, 2024
NOUMEA: The leading Cook Islands environmental lobby group says that if Donald Trump wins the United States elections, it will push back on climate change negotiations made since he was last in office. Today, voters in the United States cast their...
Climate change pushback if Trump wins, warns Cook Islands environmental group
RNZ
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November 5, 2024
By Losirene Lacanivalu, Cook Islands News Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP The leading Cook Islands environmental lobby group says that if Donald Trump wins the United States elections, it will push back on climate change negotiations made since...
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...