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My experience of being a young Pacific Islander at COP25
Today the voices of youth activists from around the world are among the strongest forces calling for urgent climate action and climate justice in the Pacific. Maryann Puia, a youth climate activist from the Solomon Islands, shares her experiences and learnings from COP25. The author (front right) at a Pacific youth forum at the COP25…
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Is your schooner sun-powered?
Fancy a refreshing drink over the holiday season but also keen to support businesses that will help us achieve a sustainable future? Check out where some of Australia’s most popular beers rank when it comes to switching to 100% renewable energy. ||||| Good News! If you’re a fan of some of Australia’s biggest selling beers,…
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Taylor calls on other countries to reduce emissions with no plan of his own at COP25
MADRID, Dec 10, 2019 – Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor has ignored Australians suffering from bushfires and Pacific Islanders facing the obliteration of their homelands by refusing to outline a plan for Australia to honour the Paris Agreement.Overnight Taylor delivered his keynote speech at the UN climate conference COP25 in Madrid, where…
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Pacific church leader tells Scott Morrison ‘each lump of coal is a nail in our coffins’
MADRID, Dec 9, 2019 – The General Secretary for the Pacific Conference of Churches has told Scott Morrison that the coal industry is killing the Pacific region. The General Secretary of the Pacific Council of Churches, Fijian clergyman and climate advocate Reverend James Bhagwan made the incendiary remarks on Day 8 of the COP25 climate conference…
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Exposing coal’s dirty ties to politics
Over 200,000 Australians viewed and shared our investigation into the influence of coal in politics. In a summer rife with destructive bushfires, which have been made more severe by the…
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‘If you don’t transition from coal, are you really part of the Pacific?’ Ex-Tuvalu PM Sopoaga asks at COP25
MADRID, Dec 7, 2019 – Former Tuvalu Prime Minister and climate champion Enele Sopoaga questioned whether countries that accept the reality of climate change but refuse to transition away from fossil fuels are really part of the Pacific.Mr Sopoaga made the remarks at an intergenerational dialogue event at the UN’s annual climate change conference, COP25…
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Bushfires and extreme weather events
Climate change is fuelling extreme weather events like horror bushfires, heatwaves and droughts, but our politicians keep shovelling coal into the furnace. Climate change is an emergency. It's time our leaders act like it.
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Bushfires and extreme weather events. What’s that about?
Climate change is fuelling extreme weather events like horror bushfires, heatwaves and droughts, but our politicians keep shovelling coal into the furnace. Climate change is an emergency. It’s time our…
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Fiji among 10 nations most impacted by climate crisis in 2018 but all of Pacific faces devastation unless the world acts now
MADRID, Dec 5, 2019 – Climate change caused eight deaths and wiped $172 million from Fiji’s economy in 2018, according to a report by climate advocacy group Germanwatch.“It’s beyond doubt that climate change is exacerbating extreme weather events around the world but the impacts are particularly acute in the Pacific,” Nilesh Prakash, Head of Climate…
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REPORT: REenergising Australian business: the corporate race to renewable energy
A Greenpeace report analyses the sector-by-sector potential job and renewable energy benefits if 80 of Australia’s top companies moved to 100% renewable energy.
