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Friday 27 September 2019

Suva, Fiji
Geoengineering will save us from the climate crisis, its champions insist. By using technology either to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or to deflect some solar radiation away from the Earth, they claim, we can undo the damage wrought by humanity’s failure to reduce greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. But while it certainly sounds like a convenient solution, there is no proof that it will work – and no telling what the side effects could be. In the view of Pacific islanders, it barely merits discussion. By François Martel.
Thursday 14 July 2016
Honiara, Solomon Islands
The new Pacific Islands Development Forum (PIDF) Leaders Summit which ended in Honiara this week, had included civil society organisations as decision makers in regional matters, said the PIANGO chairman Drew Havea, of Tonga.
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Friday 9 August 2013
Nuku‘alofa, Tonga
Fiji’s Prime Minister, Commodore Josaia Ovrequ Bainimarama, this week told Pacific Islands leaders at the Sheraton Fiji Resort that he believed that ordinary people had been excluded from the decision-making process in regional government.
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