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Need for independent science during plastic treaty negotiations
Pacific News Service
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Poor science heard during the negotiations for a new Plastics Treaty has caused concern for the Scientists Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty. A group of approximately 240 scientists representing over 250 independent scientists across the...
Opinion | Today Tuvalu, tomorrow the world
Witness
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July 9, 2025
Some big changes arrive with a bang, but usually they sort of sneak in and you barely notice them at first. Last month’s big change saw the creation of the world’s first climate-change visas. It’s a way of giving potential climate refugees some...
BlackLine Studio360: The Platform for Future-Readiness
CFO Dive
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Today Tuvalu’s Climate change visas; tomorrow extensive to the World’s?
MercoPress
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Sunday, July 6th 2025 - 11:58 UTC UN COP26 Glasgow was not a conventional statesman – he was Tuvalu’s Foreign Minister Simon Kofe, and he delivered a powerful message with his very presence in the encroaching waters. By Gwynne Dyer - Some big...
Today Tuvalu: tomorrow the world but escape hatches are closing
Cyprus Mail
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July 6, 2025
Some big changes arrive with a bang, but usually they sort of sneak in and you barely notice them at first. Last week’s big change saw the creation of the world’s first climate-change visas. It’s a way of giving potential climate refugees some...
New visa offers lifeline for Tuvaluans amid global climate crisis
Pacific Media Network
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Pacific Islanders, especially those from the climate-threatened nation of Tuvalu, are taking advantage of Australia’s new resettlement aimed at helping people affected by climate change. The move is part of a special agreement called the Falepili...
The first country forced to move its entire nation as sea takes over (literally)
Euro Weekly News
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July 29, 2025
Funafuti (Tuvalu’s capital) International Airport. Credit: Creative Commons That’s something no one imagined a few decades ago: a postcard-perfect island nation is now ground zero for climate change. Located in the South Pacific, this country of...
Today Tuvalu; Tomorrow the World
The Portugal News
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In late June all ten thousand residents of the South Pacific island state of Tuvalu were invited to enter a lottery whose 280 lucky winners will get a special climate-change visa that entitles them to work, study and live in Australia...
Over 40% of Tuvalu citizens apply for relocation to Australia
Kyodo News+
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July 2, 2025
SYDNEY - More than 4,000 citizens of the small Pacific nation of Tuvalu, equivalent to 42 percent of the population, have applied for a landmark climate visa to migrate to Australia as rising sea levels threaten their home, according to official...
Tiny Tuvalu seeks assurance from U.S. its citizens won’t be barred
Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Hawaii
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July 1, 2025
REUTERS/KIRSTY NEEDHAM/FILE PHOTO Aerial view of Funafuti, Tuvalu’s most populous island, in September 2024. SYDNEY >> Tuvalu, a tiny Pacific nation that scientists predict will be submerged by rising seas, said it is seeking written assurance...
Australia’s courts say climate change is a political problem. The ICJ just made it a legal issue
Crikey
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July 29, 2025
They were two decisions, from two separate courts, issued both a week and a world apart. One, a class action lawsuit filed in 2021 by a First Nations community in the Torres Strait, alleged the Australian government had failed to meaningfully...
An Entire Country Has to Be Evacuated Because of Climate Change
Futurism
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July 25, 2025
"The existential threat we face is not of our making. But it will remake us." Going Under Tuvalu, a small island nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is planning to evacuate all of its over 11,000 inhabitants, due to rising sea levels caused...
The panel of the International Court of Justice
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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July 30, 2025
By Dr Bal Kama On July, 26, 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) handed down its long-awaited Advisory Opinion on the legal obligations of States in relation to climate change. In what many are already describing as a “moral victory for...
A legal tipping point on climate
The Ecologist
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July 29, 2025
Not only does this provide powerful support to the case for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty which seeks to draw a line under new exploration and production by the industry, it is a very small step from this to similar implications for...
State Dept: Trump’s “Third Countries” for Immigrants Have Awful Human Rights Records
The Intercept
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July 29, 2025
The United States is building an unprecedented network of deportee dumping grounds, pursuing deals with around a third of the world’s nations to expel immigrants to places where they do not hold citizenship. Once exiled, these third-country...
How Pacific students took their climate fight to the world's highest court. And won.
RNZ
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July 29, 2025
By Jamie Tahana for RNZ Pacific It was 2019 when a group of law students at the University of the South Pacific’s campus in Port Vila, the harbourside capital of Vanuatu, were set a challenge in their tutorial. They had been learning about...
How the Cook Islands’ Proximity to China Stunned New Zealand
The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs
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By Mridul Jha Since 1997, China has funded various public infrastructure projects on the Cook Islands, which include the Court House, the Ministry of Education, Apii Nikao primary school, and the Rarotonga ring main water system, in addition to...
Geopolitical tensions challenging Pacific regionalism
The National
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The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), a vital platform for regional cooperation, has long been a space where Pacific nations address shared challenges like climate change, economic development and cultural preservation. However, recent actions by China...
To protect coral reefs, we must also protect the people who depend on them
The Conversation
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July 28, 2025
Coral reefs are vital ecosystems that sustain millions of people, yet they face a growing crisis. Rising ocean temperatures are causing coral bleaching, a process where heat disrupts the relationship between corals and the microalgae living inside...
How the world’s highest court bolstered the fight for climate reparations
Grist Magazine
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July 28, 2025
As global inaction over the climate crisis has mounted and Pacific islands nations have watched in frustration as their calls for decisive action have gone unheeded, a growing number of them, led by Vanuatu, have turned to the courts. If...