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November 7, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Police stopped a climate change march in Suva today and forced activists to remove their banners. They also warned demonstrators against making social media posts about the event. Priests, church workers and youth had gathered at My Suva Park to march as part of worldwide Day of Climate Action protests against ... <a title="Fiji police block Suva climate change march marking COP26 protests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/07/fiji-police-block-suva-climate-change-march-marking-cop26-protests/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji police block Suva climate change march marking COP26 protests">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2021
PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea — a country faced with a depressed economy and its public health system on the brink of total collapse due to the covid-19 pandemic sent a 62-member delegation to Europe to attend the COP26 Climate Change conference at a cost of a whooping K5.8 million (NZ$2.03 million). The Post-Courier was ... <a title="Almost K6 million COP26 climate bill for PNG delegation shocks nation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/06/almost-k6-million-cop26-climate-bill-for-png-delegation-shocks-nation/" aria-label="Read more about Almost K6 million COP26 climate bill for PNG delegation shocks nation">Read more</a>
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November 5, 2021
A View from Afar - In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning discuss two issues: the evolution of new generation attack drones; and the COP26 meeting in Glasgow this week. Specifically, Buchanan and Manning unpack: Whether Geopolitics has railroaded a broad-based consensus of climate interventionism; Why Russia and China abandoned the Cop26 multilateral forum?
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November 5, 2021
By Ajay Bhai Amrit in Suva Critics in Fiji are concerned about climate change hypocrisy at the COP26 Leaders Summit this week. Fiji Times contributor Ajay Bhai Amrit was moved to comment about the problem of the government’s “gas guzzler” vehicle fleet. Bula readers! First and foremost, this article is not a criticism of the ... <a title="‘Practise what you preach’ climate message to Fiji over COP26" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/05/practise-what-you-preach-climate-message-to-fiji-over-cop26/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Practise what you preach’ climate message to Fiji over COP26">Read more</a>
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November 5, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk West Papua indigenous independence leaders today launched “Green State Vision” at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, pledging to take decisive action to address the climate emergency and the impact of natural resource extraction in an independent West Papua. The Green State Vision was drafted with the assistance of international lawyers, ... <a title="West Papuans pledge to make ‘ecocide’ serious crime in key global rainforest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/05/west-papuans-pledge-to-make-ecocide-serious-crime-in-key-global-rainforest/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuans pledge to make ‘ecocide’ serious crime in key global rainforest">Read more</a>
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November 4, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Australia is accused of using “diplomatic strong-arm tactics” to water down outcomes in Pacific climate negotiations and “buy silence” on climate change, a new report has revealed. Greenpeace Australia Pacific’s report, Australia: Pacific Bully and International Outcast, reveals that the Australian government uses “bullying tactics” in regional negotiations on climate change, ... <a title="Australia accused of ‘bullying’ Pacific over climate action, ‘buying silence’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/04/australia-accused-of-bullying-pacific-over-climate-action-buying-silence/" aria-label="Read more about Australia accused of ‘bullying’ Pacific over climate action, ‘buying silence’">Read more</a>
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November 3, 2021
By Talebula Kate Fiji has done its part in the fight against climate change by pushing for the first international accord to include the 1.5-degree threshold in the Suva Declaration in 2015 and committing to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, says Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama. “At COP21, in a fury of forceful negotiations in Paris, ... <a title="‘We’ve done our part’ to ward off a ‘hellish future’, says Fiji PM" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/03/weve-done-our-part-to-ward-off-a-hellish-future-says-fiji-pm/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We’ve done our part’ to ward off a ‘hellish future’, says Fiji PM">Read more</a>
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November 3, 2021
A View from Afar - In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will discuss two issues: the evolution of new generation attack drones; and the COP26 meeting in Glasgow this week. Specifically, Buchanan and Manning will unpack: Whether Geopolitics has railroaded a broad-based consensus of climate interventionism. Why Russia and China abandoned the Cop26 multilateral forum?
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November 2, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Robert McLachlan, Massey University As the Glasgow climate summits gets underway, New Zealand’s government has announced a revised pledge, with a headline figure of a 50 percent reduction on gross 2005 emissions by the end of this decade. This looks good on the surface, but the substance of this new commitment, known as ... <a title="COP26: New Zealand’s new climate pledge is a step up, but not a ‘fair share’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/02/cop26-new-zealands-new-climate-pledge-is-a-step-up-but-not-a-fair-share/" aria-label="Read more about COP26: New Zealand’s new climate pledge is a step up, but not a ‘fair share’">Read more</a>
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November 2, 2021
By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News climate reporter A New Zealand Pasifika climate activist has told the UN climate meeting that young Pacific people are not victims of climate change but beacons of hope. The first day of the Leaders Summit is wrapping up at COP26 in Glasgow. Environmental advocate for Samoa Brianna Fruean said Pacific ... <a title="Pasifika climate activist’s cry to COP: ‘We’re not drowning, we’re fighting’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/02/pasifika-climate-activists-cry-to-cop-were-not-drowning-were-fighting/" aria-label="Read more about Pasifika climate activist’s cry to COP: ‘We’re not drowning, we’re fighting’">Read more</a>
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November 2, 2021
Māori climate activist India Logan-Riley speaking on the indigenous challenge to the “colonial project” at the COP26 opening … “In the US and Canada alone, indigenous resistance has stopped or delayed greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to at least one quarter of annual emissions. What we do works.” Image: COP26 screenshot APR (at 1:00.26) RNZ Pacific ... <a title="‘Don’t fudge with our future’, Māori climate activist warns COP26" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/02/dont-fudge-with-our-future-maori-climate-activist-warns-cop26/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Don’t fudge with our future’, Māori climate activist warns COP26">Read more</a>
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November 1, 2021
RNZ Pacific Global climate talks have started in Glasgow, Scotland, but most Pacific leaders cannot get there. While the leaders of four Pacific nations are attending the United Nations’ COP26 summit, covid travel restrictions are preventing the leaders of 10 Pacific nations from attending with their delegates. Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown is one, ... <a title="Pacific nations will be mostly unheard at critical COP26 climate summit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/01/pacific-nations-will-be-mostly-unheard-at-critical-cop26-climate-summit/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific nations will be mostly unheard at critical COP26 climate summit">Read more</a>
