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August 29, 2019
Op-Ed by – Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations The past five years have been the hottest on record in Asia and the Pacific. Unprecedented heatwaves have swept across our region, cascading into slow onset disasters such as drought. Yet heat is only part of the picture. Tropical cyclones have struck new, unprepared parts of our region ... <a title="Op-Ed: Disaster risk resilience: key to protecting vulnerable communities – UN ESCAP" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/29/op-ed-disaster-risk-resilience-key-to-protecting-vulnerable-communities-un-escap/" aria-label="Read more about Op-Ed: Disaster risk resilience: key to protecting vulnerable communities – UN ESCAP">Read more</a>
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August 26, 2019
By Ayla Miller Pasifika people in New Zealand need to take charge against climate change which is already threatening their home islands, an Auckland hui has heard. Political leaders have been too slow, warned climate experts, community, youth and Pasifika leaders who were joined at the Roskill Climate Restart hui by Minister for Climate Change ... <a title="NZ hui urges local climate action to help Pacific Islands" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/26/nz-hui-urges-local-climate-action-to-help-pacific-islands/" aria-label="Read more about NZ hui urges local climate action to help Pacific Islands">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2019
By RNZ Pacific Tuvalu’s Prime Minister has condemned the Australian Prime Minister’s conduct at last week’s Pacific Islands Forum, calling Scott Morrison’s attitude “unfortunate” and “neo-colonial,” and questioning Australia’s future in the 18-member body. In an interview with RNZ on Sunday, Enele Sopoaga also threatened to pull Tuvaluan labour from Australia’s seasonal worker programme in light ... <a title="Australian PM’s attitude ‘neo-colonial’, says Tuvalu PM" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/australian-pms-attitude-neo-colonial-says-tuvalu-pm/" aria-label="Read more about Australian PM’s attitude ‘neo-colonial’, says Tuvalu PM">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2019
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Wording has played a crucial role in a reportedly “fierce” Pacific Islands Forum in Tuvalu with Australia allegedly managing to alter documental terms to downplay its commitment to climate change mitigation. According to RNZ Pacific, a communiqué and separate statement on climate change was released after a 12-hour meeting between the ... <a title="Australia has coal removed from PIF documentation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/16/australia-has-coal-removed-from-pif-documentation/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has coal removed from PIF documentation">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2019
By Jamie Tahana of RNZ Pacific There was a frenetic energy outside the Sir Tomasi Puapua Convention Centre on Sunday, where the finishing touches were being hurriedly put to the newly-built centre on reclaimed land here on Tuvalu’s main atoll, Funafuti. People were sweeping the freshly-laid pavement, laying out the desks inside, finishing off the ... <a title="Pacific Islands Forum: What to watch out for" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/12/pacific-islands-forum-what-to-watch-out-for/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Islands Forum: What to watch out for">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2019
By RNZ Pacific Indigenous Pacific knowledge should inform the science to save the world’s oceans. That was the consensus among Pacific ocean scientists and other regional stakeholders who gathered in New Caledonia recently for the first global workshop aimed at arresting the decline of the world’s oceans. RNZ’s Dominic Godfrey was there. LISTEN: Indigenous Pacific ... <a title="Indigenous Pacific knowledge to help save the ocean" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/09/indigenous-pacific-knowledge-to-help-save-the-ocean/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous Pacific knowledge to help save the ocean">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2019
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Human rights violations in West Papua are to be given priority at the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Tuvalu next week. According to RNZ Pacific, the forum’s Foreign Ministers have pushed for the alleged human rights abuses to be included on the forum agenda, citing the reported escalation of violence ... <a title="West Papua, climate to top agenda at Pacific Islands Forum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/07/west-papua-climate-to-top-agenda-at-pacific-islands-forum/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua, climate to top agenda at Pacific Islands Forum">Read more</a>
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August 2, 2019
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Steve Sawyer, Rongelap campaigner with the original Rainbow Warrior which was bombed by French secret service agents in July 1985 in Auckland, aboard the new Rainbow Warrior during the ship’s first visit to New Zealand. © Nigel Marple/Greenpeace A tribute to STEVE SAWYER by former Rainbow ... <a title="Remembering environmental campaigner Steve Sawyer, 1956-2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/02/remembering-environmental-campaigner-steve-sawyer-1956-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Remembering environmental campaigner Steve Sawyer, 1956-2019">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2019
By RNZ Pacific Pacific leaders have declared a climate crisis in the region and are demanding an end to coal mining. The declaration was signed by several regional leaders at the Pacific Islands Development Forum in Fiji on Tuesday. The declaration expressed grave concerns about the impacts the climate crisis will have on the Pacific. ... <a title="Pacific leaders declare climate crisis, demand end to coal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/31/pacific-leaders-declare-climate-crisis-demand-end-to-coal/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific leaders declare climate crisis, demand end to coal">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2019
James Marape told The Guardian that Australia had “a moral responsibility … to the upkeep of the planet”, particularly given the extreme effect it was having on smaller Pacific nations. “I don’t intend to speak from Canberra’s perspective, they have their own policy mindset, but as human beings I know they will respond to the moral obligation ... <a title="Helen Davidson: Australia has a ‘moral responsibility’ to planet, says Marape" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/29/helen-davidson-australia-has-a-moral-responsibility-to-planet-says-marape/" aria-label="Read more about Helen Davidson: Australia has a ‘moral responsibility’ to planet, says Marape">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2019
It seems inevitable that New Zealand will soon officially be in a state of emergency over climate change, with a declaration likely to be passed in Parliament. Is this a good thing? The debate over moving into official emergency status has already been going on in every local government body throughout the country. A large ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The problems with declaring climate change emergencies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/18/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-problems-with-declaring-climate-change-emergencies/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The problems with declaring climate change emergencies">Read more</a>
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July 12, 2019
Is this part of the Labour-led Government’s long-promised “nuclear-free moment”, alluded to by Jacinda Ardern when she promised radical action on climate change? The announcement this week of a proposed “feebate” which will make more environmentally-friendly cars cheaper while making the gas-guzzlers more expensive is one of the long-awaited plans for how New Zealand will ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Will the Government’s nudge make our cars greener?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/12/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-will-the-governments-nudge-make-our-cars-greener/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Will the Government’s nudge make our cars greener?">Read more</a>
