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November 7, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Joe Biden is almost certain to be the next president of the United States, ushering in a welcome return to engagement with the climate crisis after four years of denial. Great news for the Pacific. In contrast with Donald Trump’s premature declaration of victory and desperate calls to “stop the count”, ... <a title="Joe Biden edges closer to White House, but faces climate policy frustration" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/07/joe-biden-edges-closer-to-white-house-but-faces-climate-policy-frustration/" aria-label="Read more about Joe Biden edges closer to White House, but faces climate policy frustration">Read more</a>
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November 1, 2020
By RNZ News Green Party delegates have voted to accept a deal with Labour which will give it two ministerial portfolios outside of cabinet in the New Zealand government. Consensus was blocked, so the party required 75 percent of delegates to get the deal across the line this evening. Labour offered the Green Party the ... <a title="NZ Greens accept Labour’s offer for ‘cooperation agreement’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/01/nz-greens-accept-labours-offer-for-cooperation-agreement/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Greens accept Labour’s offer for ‘cooperation agreement’">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2020
ANALYSIS: By David Hall, Auckland University of Technology A pandemic can change the foundations of a society. But if this happens in New Zealand over the next three years, it will be for reasons beyond the control of the sixth Labour government. When it comes to the fundamental structure of state and economy, Labour is ... <a title="With a mandate to govern NZ alone, Labour must now decide what it really stands for" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/21/with-a-mandate-to-govern-nz-alone-labour-must-now-decide-what-it-really-stands-for/" aria-label="Read more about With a mandate to govern NZ alone, Labour must now decide what it really stands for">Read more</a>
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October 12, 2020
SPECIAL REPORT: By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch In this new covid-19 world, environmental and climate crisis defenders are developing new ways to cope and operate under the pandemic constraints. Groups as diverse as the local branch of the global environmental campaigner Greenpeace Pacific, Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), the Green Party in ... <a title="How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/12/how-pacific-environmental-defenders-are-coping-with-the-covid-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic">Read more</a>
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September 29, 2020
By RNZ News Housing and climate change caused the most heated exchanges at TVNZ’s young voters debate in New Zealand last night, an event far more colourful than last week’s debate between Labour leader and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and National leader Judith Collins. Kiri Allan from Labour, Simeon Brown from National, Chlöe Swarbrick from ... <a title="Politicians try to woo young voters in fiery NZ election debate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/29/politicians-try-to-woo-young-voters-in-fiery-nz-election-debate/" aria-label="Read more about Politicians try to woo young voters in fiery NZ election debate">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi, reporting for the Pacific Media Centre Six years on from being appointed head of the Pacific Community, Director-General Collin Tukuitonga, a boy born on the tiny Pacific island of Niue, has a voice louder than a schoolboy rugby captain, a voice that serves him well as a Pasifika community leader. There is ... <a title="Common enemy overcomes fragile Pacific regional unity – climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/common-enemy-overcomes-fragile-pacific-regional-unity-climate-change/" aria-label="Read more about Common enemy overcomes fragile Pacific regional unity – climate change">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi, reporting for the Pacific Media Centre “Climate change may be slower but its momentum is enormous.” – Stuart Chape, Acting Director-General, South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP). Does anyone remember Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish environmentalist who caused a worldwide climate change stir – particularly among the neoliberal believers – but was ... <a title="How covid-19 has undermined climate change initiatives in the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/15/how-covid-19-has-undermined-climate-change-initiatives-in-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about How covid-19 has undermined climate change initiatives in the Pacific">Read more</a>
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July 1, 2020
By Zahra Karim Didarali in Jakarta The covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has brought numerous challenges to the way journalists report and has limited the stories they’re able to tell, forcing many of them to drop coverage of issues like the environment in order to focus on the public health crisis. But for Jakarta-based Kantor Berita Radio ... <a title="Indonesian radio gets covid creative to communicate climate crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/01/indonesian-radio-gets-covid-creative-to-communicate-climate-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian radio gets covid creative to communicate climate crisis">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch In an innovative new development Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) will partner with the Pacific Media Centre on a “climate and covid” project to help improve and enhance the quality of environmental and reporting in the Pacific region. In a move that could signal future partnerships ... <a title="EJN teams up with PMC’s Pacific Media Watch on new climate project" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/18/ejn-teams-up-with-pmcs-pacific-media-watch-on-new-climate-project/" aria-label="Read more about EJN teams up with PMC’s Pacific Media Watch on new climate project">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2020
Former Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons has died. Her husband, Harry Parke, said the death was totally unexpected. “Yesterday morning she was out on the farm doing stuff, she had a bit of a fall and finally ended up in Thames Hospital where she had a massive stroke and died at 9.45pm last night – ... <a title="Former Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons ‘lived her convictions’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/06/former-green-party-co-leader-jeanette-fitzsimons-lived-her-convictions/" aria-label="Read more about Former Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons ‘lived her convictions’">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2020
By Will Steffen of the Australian National University Opposition leader Anthony Albanese’s announcement on Friday that a Labor government in Australia would adopt a target of net-zero emissions by 2050 was a big step in the right direction. But a bit of simple maths reveals the policy is too little, too late. Perhaps the most ... <a title="ALP’s climate policy too little, too late – we must run faster to win the race" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/25/labors-climate-policy-too-little-too-late-we-must-run-faster-to-win-the-race/" aria-label="Read more about ALP’s climate policy too little, too late – we must run faster to win the race">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2019
Op-Ed by Kaveh Zahedi, Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) In less than ten days world leaders will be gathering at the United Nations in New York for the Climate Action Summit. Their goal is simple; to increase ambition and accelerate action in the ... <a title="Op-Ed: Confronting the new climate reality in Asia and the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/22/op-ed-confronting-the-new-climate-reality-in-asia-and-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Op-Ed: Confronting the new climate reality in Asia and the Pacific">Read more</a>
