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April 12, 2025
RNZ Pacific Pacific climate activists this week handed a letter from civil society to this year’s United Nations climate conference hosts, Brazil, emphasising their demands for the end of fossil fuels and transition to renewable energy. More than 180 indigenous, youth, and environmental organisations from across the world have signed the letter, coordinated by the ... <a title="Pacific climate activists join 180+ groups calling on COP30 hosts Brazil to end fossil fuel dependence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/12/pacific-climate-activists-join-180-groups-calling-on-cop30-hosts-brazil-to-end-fossil-fuel-dependence/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific climate activists join 180+ groups calling on COP30 hosts Brazil to end fossil fuel dependence">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2025
The second of a two-part series on the historic Rongelap evacuation of 300 Marshall islanders from their irradiated atoll with the help of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior crew and the return of Rainbow Warrior III 40 years later on a nuclear justice research mission. Journalist and author David Robie, who was on board, recalls ... <a title="From Rongelap to Mejatto – how Rainbow Warrior helped move nuclear refugees" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/01/from-rongelap-to-mejatto-how-rainbow-warrior-helped-move-nuclear-refugees/" aria-label="Read more about From Rongelap to Mejatto – how Rainbow Warrior helped move nuclear refugees">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2025
The first of a two-part series on the historic Rongelap evacuation of 300 Marshall islanders from their irradiated atoll with the help of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior crew and the return of Rainbow Warrior III 40 years later on a nuclear justice research mission. SPECIAL REPORT: By Shiva Gounden in Majuro Family isn’t just ... <a title="‘We’re not just welcoming you as allies, but as family’ – Rainbow Warrior in Marshall Islands 40 years on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/01/were-not-just-welcoming-you-as-allies-but-as-family-rainbow-warrior-in-marshall-islands-40-years-on/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We’re not just welcoming you as allies, but as family’ – Rainbow Warrior in Marshall Islands 40 years on">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Pacific Media Watch Earthwise presenters Lois and Martin Griffiths of Plains FM96.9 radio talk to Dr David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report, about heightened global fears of nuclear war as tensions have mounted since US President Donald Trump has returned to power. Dr Robie reminds ... <a title="Nuclear free Pacific – back to the future, Earthwise talks to David Robie" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/20/nuclear-free-pacific-back-to-the-future-earthwise-talks-to-david-robie/" aria-label="Read more about Nuclear free Pacific – back to the future, Earthwise talks to David Robie">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2025
With the sudden departure of New Zealand’s Reserve Bank Governor, one has to ask whether there is a pattern here — of a succession of public sector leaders leaving their posts in uncertain circumstances and a series of decisions being made without much regard for due process. It brings to mind the current spectacle of ... <a title="How New Zealand is venturing down the road of political upheaval" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/12/how-new-zealand-is-venturing-down-the-road-of-political-upheaval/" aria-label="Read more about How New Zealand is venturing down the road of political upheaval">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2025
By Reza Azam of Greenpeace Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior has arrived back in the Marshall Islands yesterday for a six-week mission around the Pacific nation to support independent scientific research into the impact of decades-long nuclear weapons testing by the US government. Forty years ago in May 1985, its namesake, the original Rainbow Warrior, took ... <a title="Rainbow Warrior back in Marshall Islands on nuclear justice mission" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/12/rainbow-warrior-back-in-marshall-islands-on-nuclear-justice-mission/" aria-label="Read more about Rainbow Warrior back in Marshall Islands on nuclear justice mission">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor The Trump administration’s decision to eliminate more than 90 percent of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) funding means “nothing’s safe right now,” a regional political analyst says. President Donald Trump’s government has said it is slashing about US$60 billion in overall US development and humanitarian assistance around ... <a title="Political analyst hopes NZ, Australia will ‘step up’ over USAID cuts gap" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/political-analyst-hopes-nz-australia-will-step-up-over-usaid-cuts-gap/" aria-label="Read more about Political analyst hopes NZ, Australia will ‘step up’ over USAID cuts gap">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2025
Asia Pacific Report In the year marking 40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior by French secret agents and 71 years since the most powerful nuclear weapons tested by the United States, Greenpeace is calling on Washington to comply with demands by the Marshall Islands for nuclear justice. “The Marshall Islands bears the ... <a title="Four decades after Rongelap evacuation, Greenpeace makes new plea for nuclear justice by US" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/01/four-decades-after-rongelap-evacuation-greenpeace-makes-new-plea-for-nuclear-justice-by-us/" aria-label="Read more about Four decades after Rongelap evacuation, Greenpeace makes new plea for nuclear justice by US">Read more</a>
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February 20, 2025
Pacific Media Watch A New Zealand-based community education provider, Dark Times Academy, has had a US Embassy grant to deliver a course teaching Pacific Islands journalists about disinformation terminated after the new Trump administration took office. The new US administration requested a list of course participants and to review the programme material amid controversy over ... <a title="US backing for Pacific disinformation media course casualty of Trump aid ‘freeze’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/20/us-backing-for-pacific-disinformation-media-course-casualty-of-trump-aid-freeze/" aria-label="Read more about US backing for Pacific disinformation media course casualty of Trump aid ‘freeze’">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – The New Zealand government and the mainstream media have gone ballistic (thankfully not literally just yet) over the move by the small Pacific nation to sign a strategic partnership with China in Beijing this week. It is the latest in a string of island nations that ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: Will New Zealand invade the Cook Islands to stop China? Seriously" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/14/eugene-doyle-will-new-zealand-invade-the-cook-islands-to-stop-china-seriously/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: Will New Zealand invade the Cook Islands to stop China? Seriously">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2025
The Chinese have politely told the Kiwis to back off. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told reporters that China and the Cook Islands have had diplomatic relations since 1997 which “should not be disrupted or restrained by any third party”. “New Zealand is rightly furious about it,” a TVNZ Pacific affairs writer editorialised to the ... <a title="Will New Zealand invade the Cook Islands to stop China? Seriously" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/14/will-new-zealand-invade-the-cook-islands-to-stop-china-seriously/" aria-label="Read more about Will New Zealand invade the Cook Islands to stop China? Seriously">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2025
PNG Post-Courier In a fervent appeal to the global community, Prime Minister James Marape of Papua New Guinea has called on US President Donald Trump to “rethink” his decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and current global climate initiatives. Marape’s plea came during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting held in Davos, Switzerland, on ... <a title="Marape calls US climate backtracking ‘irresponsible’ in rethink plea to Trump" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/30/marape-calls-us-climate-backtracking-irresponsible-in-rethink-plea-to-trump/" aria-label="Read more about Marape calls US climate backtracking ‘irresponsible’ in rethink plea to Trump">Read more</a>
