Results for Pacific Islands

Matangi Tonga Online photo-journalist, Linny Folau, has joined four senior journalists on the first APIC - Pacific Islands Journalists’ Invitation Program in Japan from October 20-28, aimed to deepen their understanding on some national and regional issues facing Japan.

Kiribati hosts Pacific Island representatives to discuss hazard waste management this week, October 19-22 as part of the PacWaste project.

The Prime Minister of Tuvalu and President of Kiribati have called for a strong and effective climate change agreement at the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) to be held in Paris at the end of this year.

Making history on 26 September 2015, 193 world leaders, including all Pacific leaders, have committed to pursue 17 Global Goals, intended to achieve three extraordinary things in the next 15 years: end extreme poverty; fight inequality and injustice; address climate change. By Osnat Lubrani

The Pacific Islands Forum Leaders group endorsed its declaration for Climate Change Action Plan during its 46th annual meeting in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea from 8-10 September, expressing their concerns that Climate Change remains the single greatest threat to the livelihood, security and well-being of the peoples of the Pacific.

While leaders retreated today for the 46th Pacific Island Forum Leaders meeting in Port Moresby, around 30 Australians walked onto the world’s biggest coal port in Newcastle in support of Pacific Small Island States call for a moratorium on new coal mines.

Strong new measures to tighten regulations on arms trade estimated at $100 billion worldwide are expected to be made during the first Conference of States Parties (CSP) for the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in Cancun, Mexico on 25 August. Campaigners say the Pacific will play a large role in preserving peaceful societies in an increasingly violent world, however some states, including Tonga, are neither a state party nor a signatory to this treaty.

Aquaculture plays a vital role in providing nutrition and jobs in developing nations but more aquaculture is needed. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization says that the amount of farm-reared fish must increase from 66 million tons annually to 93 million tons by 2030 to maintain current levels of per capita global fish consumption.

Kiribati President Anote Tong today, 13 August 2015 called for a global and immediate moratorium on all new coal mines and coal mine expansions, and has called on all State leaders to back his call to action in the lead up to the Paris climate talks in December.