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…
Pacific Islands
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…
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…
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…
Achieving strong COP26 outcomes on climate finance for the Pacific through climate diplomacy
Thursday
22nd April
2021
Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders have reaffirmed climate change as the single greatest threat facing the Pacific. With…
Pacific climate diplomacy – strength in solidarity
Thursday
29th July
2021
MAHENDRA KUMAR | Over the last 10 years or so, the Pacific Small Island Developing States…
Matching strategic and defence policy to the climate challenge
Thursday
9th September
2021
BRENDAN SARGEANT | Australia is experiencing a series of cascading crises. While the most immediate is the…
Pacific Pawa: Understanding how power differs in the context of Pacific climate diplomacy
Thursday
10th June
2021
For a long time, we’ve considered power as brute strength—as this ability that individuals and institutions have to influence…
Indonesia’s “Pacific elevation”: Elevating what and who?
Monday
13th January
2020
In July 2019, at the inaugural Indonesian Exposition held in Auckland, New Zealand, Indonesia launched its ‘Pacific…
When it comes to the Pacific the feeling is mutual: How do Australian diplomats and their academic counterparts see each other?
Friday
6th March
2020
There are some moments which focus into sharp relief only months later. I experienced one of…