Climate Changes Implications To Pacific Islands
Climate change remains the greatest threat to the livelihoods, security and well-being of the peoples of the Pacific islands.
We are not drowning – we are fighting! Fight with us! Round trip with Rev. James Bhagwan, Fiji
We are not drowning, we are fighting! Fight with us! – Round trip with Rev. Bhagwan, Fiji
Oceans in the climate crisis
From 26 September to 3 October 2019, Fair Oceans and the Oceania-Dialogue organised a speaker/lobby tour with Rev. James Bhagwan, General Secretary of the Pacific Conference of Churches.
Toda Pacific Declaration on Climate Change, Conflict and Peace
In September 2018, the Toda Peace Institute and the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (University of Otago, New Zealand) conducted a workshop on “Climate Change and Conflict in the Pacific: Prevention, Management and the Enhancement of Community Resilience” in Auckland, New Zealand.
Flowing from the debates and findings of that workshop, a draft of the ‘Toda Pacific Declaration on Climate Change, Conflict and Peace’ was elaborated and opened for comment. After an extensive and comprehensive process of discussion and several iterations of the draft, the Declaration was launched on 29 July 2019. The Declaration has been contributed to by many academics, policymakers, peacebuilding practitioners and civil society actors concerned about the challenges and potential conflict linkages posed by climatic uncertainty in the Pacific. In particular, Toda is grateful to the lead authors Volker Boege, John Campbell, Kevin Clements, Kirsten Davies and Upolu Luma Vaai.
Our wish now is that the Declaration, available at this link on the Toda website, will be widely circulated and endorsed by as many people and organisations as possible. Organisational endorsements can count the number of people represented by the organisation. Please go to the link, endorse the Declaration and circulate it widely to your networks.
Toda Pacific Declaration on Climate Change, Conflict and Peace
OUR ISLANDS, OUR HOME TORRES STRAIT CLIMATE JUSTICE CASE
Torres Strait Islanders are bringing the first climate change case against the Australian federal government over human rights.
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ePOP-Videos on climate and environmental changes that threaten people in Oceania
ePOP – eParticipatory Observers Project is built on an international network of young observers, committed and filled with solidarity, who produce in a participative way short videos of 2-3 minutes, aiming at collecting the perceptions of populations about the impacts of global changes (climate and environmental changes).
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SIGN THE PEOPLE’S DEMANDS FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE
To: Government representatives to the 24th Session of the Conference of Parties (COP24) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,
We urge you to stand with people across the world — not Big Polluters — and immediately take steps to address the climate crisis.
Climate change is the crisis of our time. This December at COP24, you will lay out the rules to implement the Paris Agreement, policies that will affect the lives of billions of people.
The urgency of the climate crisis requires a just response centered on human rights, equity, and justice. We demand you:
- Keep fossil fuels in the ground.
- Reject false solutions that are displacing real, people-first solutions to the climate crisis.
- Advance real solutions that are just, feasible, and essential.
- Honor climate finance obligations to developing countries.
- End corporate interference in and capture of the climate talks.
- Ensure developed countries honor their “Fair Shares” for largely fueling this crisis.
PETITION: PACIFIC CALLS FOR EQUITABLE AND TRANSFORMATIVE RELATIONS WITH THE EU
As African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Countries prepare to re-negotiate their relationship with the European Union (EU), we civil society organisations and people from the Pacific are calling for any future relationship to support our nations to determine and define our own development.
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