2019-04-02T17:00:37+12:00November 5th, 2018|Categories: Large Ocean States, News from Melanesia, Pasifika Rising News|Tags: 1.5 degrees, Climate change, Pacific Resilience|
Reducing the 75 percent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions coming from the transport sector in the Pacific Islands, will be the focus of the Pacific Islands Transport Forum and Expo hosted by the University of the South Pacific (USP) as part of their 50th anniversary from 8 – 10 November 2018.
2018-10-15T16:01:47+12:00October 15th, 2018|Categories: Featured, Large Ocean States, Pacific Civil Society, Pacific Identities|Tags: Pacific leadership, Pacific Resilience, Pacific youth, Transform Aqorau|
By Dr TRANSFORM AQORAU* The ceremonial changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace is a tourist attraction for people form all over the world. It is wonderfully atttactive and captivating occasion. Dr Transform Aqorau Photo: iss-foundation.org In our beautiful Pacific Islands region, we too are going through a changing of the guards
2018-10-15T16:55:26+12:00October 8th, 2018|Categories: Large Ocean States, Pacific Identities, Pacific Resilience|Tags: 1.5 degrees, Climate change, Pacific Resilience|
By KOSI LATU* Kosi Latu, SPREP Director General. Photo: SPREP As we are faced with darkness there is hope. Today a special report from the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius was released. The messages within the report will generate both hope
2018-10-09T10:23:29+12:00October 8th, 2018|Tags: Pacific Resilience|
The Understanding Risk Finance Pacific forum will take place in Port Vila, Vanuatu, bringing together policymakers, financial risk managers, and development partners, from the region and around globe, to strengthen regional collaboration on climate and disaster risk finance in the Pacific.
2018-10-15T16:50:58+12:00September 20th, 2018|Categories: Large Ocean States, Pacific Civil Society, Pacific Resilience|Tags: Duke University, Environmental Defense Fund, iTunaIntel, Pacific Catalyst, Pacific fisheries, Pacific Resilience, Transform Aqorau, University of the South Pacific, University of Wollongong|
A consortium of educators and international policy experts aims to develop and inspire a new generation of fisheries leaders across the Pacific Islands region. Pacific Catalyst is a partnership of the University of the South Pacific, the University of Wollongong, Duke University, iTunaIntel and Environmental Defense Fund. Dr. Transform Aqorau, former deputy director of