Unprecedented is not a reason to be unprepared
Tuesday
11th May
2021
With the Oceania region ranked as the greatest disaster risk area worldwide, Peter Layton says countries need to improve their…
Category Archive: Pillar 4: Climate and environment
Preparing Australia to respond to disasters—at home and abroad
Friday
6th August
2021
PETER LAYTON | The COVID pandemic relentlessly rolls on but prescribed burns have now also begun across…
Australia’s new regional context: Pacific island futures and air power possibilities
Thursday
19th March
2020
PETER LAYTON | In the Australian strategic consciousness the Pacific islands looms very large. There is more than two…
Time to link diplomacy to action—climate change is at our doorstep
Thursday
13th May
2021
If there was need of any reminder of the growing threat of climate change in Palau, it was the devastation…
Road to COP26: Timeline of Pacific diplomacy
Thursday
5th August
2021
TESS NEWTON CAIN | ‘Climate diplomacy’ encompasses the interactions, practices and protocols through which state and non-state…
COP26: Pacific participation and responses
Tuesday
14th December
2021
TESS NEWTON CAIN AND REBEKAH GENTNER | With the benefit of a little distance and perspective, we can…
The obfuscation of human rights in the climate change discourse in the Pacific
Monday
24th February
2020
The United Nations human rights committee, who heard the case between Teitiota v New Zealand in January,…
The nuclear-free Pacific is not free
Monday
16th March
2020
When white flakes fell from the sky in the atolls belonging to the Marshall Islands, children were in…
The ‘C’ word, burning elephants, post truth and how Pacific nations can lobby Australia’s position on climate change
Friday
20th March
2020
With the elephant of climate change well and truly in the room and on fire in Australia, the Morrison…
Ecosystems, climate change and GDP: Some considerations for PICs
Wednesday
3rd June
2020
Rural communities in Pacific island countries (PICs), which rely directly and acutely on nature’s goods and services for food…