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September 4, 2023
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific journalist A young Samoan climate activist says the UN’s new guidance on children’s rights to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is “the first step to global change”. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child have affirmed for the first time that climate change is affecting children’s rights ... <a title="Samoan climate activist welcomes UN’s recognition of children’s rights" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/04/samoan-climate-activist-welcomes-uns-recognition-of-childrens-rights/" aria-label="Read more about Samoan climate activist welcomes UN’s recognition of children’s rights">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2023
By Joeli Bili in Suva Around the world, today – July 26 — is commemorated as the International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem. In 2015, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) during its General Conference proclaimed the day, also known as the World Mangrove Day. It was first commemorated ... <a title="How mangroves are crucial for Fiji’s climate strategy – and the world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/27/how-mangroves-are-crucial-for-fijis-climate-strategy-and-the-world/" aria-label="Read more about How mangroves are crucial for Fiji’s climate strategy – and the world">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2023
By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva There was euphoria at the campus of the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Suva in Fiji last Thursday when news came from New York that a historic resolution on climate action had been adopted unanimously at the United Nations General Assembly. The resolution refers to the International Court ... <a title="‘Frustrated’ USP law students were catalyst for landmark UN climate vote" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/06/frustrated-usp-law-students-were-catalyst-for-landmark-un-climate-vote/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Frustrated’ USP law students were catalyst for landmark UN climate vote">Read more</a>
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March 23, 2023
Monday’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has given a “final warning” to avert global catastrophe. Pacific cabinet ministers call on all world leaders to urgently transition to renewables. COMMENT: By Ralph Regenvanu and Seve Paeniu The cycle is repeating itself. A tropical cyclone of frightening strength strikes a Pacific island nation, and leaves ... <a title="As Pacific islanders, we bear the brunt of the climate crisis. The time to end fossil fuel dependence is now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/23/as-pacific-islanders-we-bear-the-brunt-of-the-climate-crisis-the-time-to-end-fossil-fuel-dependence-is-now/" aria-label="Read more about As Pacific islanders, we bear the brunt of the climate crisis. The time to end fossil fuel dependence is now">Read more</a>
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March 21, 2023
By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News senior journalist There is “is much to win by trying” to take action on climate change — that is a key finding in a major new international climate report the UN chief is calling a “survival guide for humanity”. It is something of a mic drop moment for the army ... <a title="Some Pacific nations ‘won’t survive’ if NZ and world drop the climate ball" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/some-pacific-nations-wont-survive-if-nz-and-world-drop-the-climate-ball/" aria-label="Read more about Some Pacific nations ‘won’t survive’ if NZ and world drop the climate ball">Read more</a>
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March 21, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Bronwyn Hayward, University of Canterbury This decade is the critical moment for making deep, rapid cuts to emissions, and acting to protect people from dangerous climate impacts we can no longer avoid, according to the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The synthesis report is the culmination of seven ... <a title="IPCC report: world must cut emissions and urgently adapt to climate realities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/ipcc-report-world-must-cut-emissions-and-urgently-adapt-to-climate-realities/" aria-label="Read more about IPCC report: world must cut emissions and urgently adapt to climate realities">Read more</a>
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March 5, 2023
RNZ News Thousands of people turned up for climate strikes across Aotearoa New Zealand today — and briefly staged a sit-in at Christchurch City Council. School students and others around the country protested for climate change action from the government. School Strike 4 Climate Christchurch spokesperson Aurora Garner-Randolph, 17, said she expected between 15,000 to ... <a title="Climate strikes: Thousands march in NZ to demand action from government" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/05/climate-strikes-thousands-march-in-nz-to-demand-action-from-government/" aria-label="Read more about Climate strikes: Thousands march in NZ to demand action from government">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2022
Mediasia Iafor New Zealand journalist and academic David Robie has covered the Asia-Pacific region for international media for more than four decades. An advocate for media freedom in the Pacific region, he is the author of several books on South Pacific media and politics, including an account of the French bombing of the Greenpeace flagship ... <a title="David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/27/david-robie-pacific-lessons-in-climate-crisis-journalism-and-combating-disinformation/" aria-label="Read more about David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2022
Mediasia Iafor New Zealand journalist and academic David Robie has covered the Asia-Pacific region for international media for more than four decades. An advocate for media freedom in the Pacific region, he is the author of several books on South Pacific media and politics, including an account of the French bombing of the Greenpeace flagship ... <a title="Pacific lessons in climate change journalism and combating disinformation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/21/pacific-lessons-in-climate-change-journalism-and-combating-disinformation/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific lessons in climate change journalism and combating disinformation">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2022
By Geraldine Panapasa in Suva Climate change remains the single greatest existential threat facing the Blue Pacific, as leaders concluded the biggest diplomatic regional meeting in Suva last week with a plea for the world to take urgent action to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. While renewed commitments by Australia to reduce its carbon ... <a title="Pacific leaders call on world to take urgent climate action for island region’s ‘survival’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/18/pacific-leaders-call-on-world-to-take-urgent-climate-action-for-island-regions-survival/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific leaders call on world to take urgent climate action for island region’s ‘survival’">Read more</a>
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October 31, 2021
Op-Ed by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana As the leaders of Asia and the Pacific prepare to head to Glasgow for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), they can be sure that our region will be in the spotlight: many of the most vulnerable countries to the impacts of climate change are ... <a title="Op-Ed: Is Asia and the Pacific ready for the global climate stage?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/31/op-ed-is-asia-and-the-pacific-ready-for-the-global-climate-stage/" aria-label="Read more about Op-Ed: Is Asia and the Pacific ready for the global climate stage?">Read more</a>
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October 4, 2021
Pacific Journalism Review A Frontline investigative journalism article on the politics behind the decade-long Bougainville war leading up to the overwhelming vote for independence is among articles in the latest Pacific Journalism Review. The report, by investigative journalist and former academic Professor Wendy Bacon and Nicole Gooch, poses questions about the “silence” in Australia over ... <a title="Behind scenes probe of Bougainville struggle for independence tops PJR" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/04/behind-scenes-probe-of-bougainville-struggle-for-independence-tops-pjr/" aria-label="Read more about Behind scenes probe of Bougainville struggle for independence tops PJR">Read more</a>
