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Why Australia Should Amplify the Pacific Region’s Voice in APEC
Climate diplomacy efforts in the Pacific are an integral part of Australian foreign policy under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. After taking office in 2022, Albanese formally reinstated an Australian ambassador for climate change. The ambassador...
Owner: James Pach
Pacific Governance meeting kicks off in Tonga amid Pacific challenges
The 55th CRGA meeting of the Pacific Community (SPC) has officially begun in Nuku‘alofa. From 14 to 15 October, government representatives from across the Pacific are convening at the Fa’onelua Convention Centre in Tonga for the Committee of...
Owner: Kalafi Moala
U.S. passport no longer one of the top 10 most powerful
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Four Last Quarter Global Summits Aim To Redefine Sustainability
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Forbes
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Four Global Summits Redefining Sustainability getty As 2025 winds down, the climate clock is no longer ticking, it is pounding. The world has five years left to deliver the 2030 targets, in the face of stubbornly high emissions, biodiversity loss,...
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Kate Middleton's magical Disney 'Princess-core' moments! From Windsor to the red carpet the Princess of Wales brings fairytales to life
By ELIZA SCARBOROUGH Published: 02:17 EDT, 14 October 2025 | Updated: 03:14 EDT, 14 October 2025 From university to a Windsor wedding watched by the world, the Princess of Wales has lived out a love story that feels straight from a Disney...
Owner: Jonathan Harmsworth
Pacific News In Brief For 14 October
Article – RNZ A round up of news from around the region, including a new mental health strategy in Tonga. Tonga – mental health Tonga’s health ministry has launched its long-awaited National Mental Health Strategy and Policy at Vaiola Hospital....
Owner: Thompson Family & Jeremy Rose
SPC meetings open in Nuku'alofa: "United for a resilient future"
By Katalina Siasau Tonga is hosting the Pacific Community's (SPC) 55th Meeting of the Committee of Representatives of Governments and Administrations (CRGA) and the 14 Conference of the Pacific's Community meeting this week, under the theme...
Owner: Fonua Family
WFF 2025: Hand-in-Hand Investment Forum Pitches $15.9 Billion In Agrifood Opportunities
ROME – The Hand-in-Hand (HIH) Investment Forum 2025 opened today at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) headquarters, showcasing more than $15.9 billion in investment cases that target improving...
Owner: The National Tribune Australia
10 allies, US advocate for Taiwan’s participation in ICAO
The US and 10 of Taiwan's diplomatic allies spoke in favor of Taiwan’s efforts to join the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), at its recent triennial assembly, the foreign ministry said today. The 10 allies, along with the US,...
Owner: Lin Family
Climate hysteria in the media has really got to stop
Reading the news, you would believe that the Great Barrier Reef -- the aquatic wonder off Australia's coast -- is on its deathbed, bleached beyond recognition by climate change. Recent headlines shouted in unison: "Great Barrier Reef suffers worst...
Owner: Chirathivat Family
Migration crisis: Climate change is trapping millions in harm’s way
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Earth.com
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Climate change is reshaping where people can safely live, but its fingerprints on migration are subtle. Seas are creeping higher, crops are failing more often, and droughts, storms, and wildfires are intensifying. Yet when people explain why they...
Owner: Eric Ralls
Thinking a little too hard about the Dodgers’ massive payroll
In an article published yesterday, MLB.com Brewers beat writer Adam McCalvy wrote that the Dodgers “outspend the Brewers by the GDP of a developing nation.” That line was no doubt intended simply as a humorous remark, but thinking about how...
Owner: Jay Penske
10 allies, U.S. advocate for Taiwan's participation in ICAO
Taipei, Oct. 14 (CNA) The United States and 10 of Taiwan's diplomatic allies spoke in favor of Taiwan's efforts to join the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), at its recent triennial assembly, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. The...
Owner: Taiwanese Government
NZ discriminatory migration system fails climate-affected Pacific People: report
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Pacific News Service
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Authorities in Aotearoa New Zealand are subjecting people in the Pacific islands of Tuvalu and Kiribati at risk of climate related harm to discriminatory migration policies that tear families apart and disregard children’s rights, Amnesty...
Owner: The Pacific Islands News Association Ltd
New Zealand at higher than normal risk for cyclones from November to April season
New Caledonia, Vanuatu and northern New Zealand are at a normal to elevated risk of tropical cyclones. Fiji is forecast to see normal activity, while the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Tuvalu, Tokelau, and Wallis and Futuna are expected...
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A decade after Paris Agreement, climate deal tested by broken promises and rising heat
PARIS, Oct 14 — Climate cooperation is facing a reckoning. Ten years after the landmark Paris Agreement, major polluters are wavering on action while the world fast approaches the deal’s safer warming limit. With climate change already causing...
Owner: Dato' Siew Ka Wei
Il Vietnam raggiunge uno storico traguardo diplomatico stringendo relazioni con tutti i membri dell’ONU
La missione del Presidente vietnamita all’ONU ha confermato l’impegno di Hà Nội per un multilateralismo efficace e orientato ai risultati. In parallelo, l’apertura delle relazioni con Tuvalu colloca il Việt Nam tra i rari Paesi con legami...
Owner: Vladimir Ilich Maksimenko & Andrey Grigoryevich Areshev
2025: Pastor Oyakhilome to lead global healing streams service in October
The 15th edition of the Healing Streams Live Healing Services, led by Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, is scheduled to take place from Friday, October 24, to Sunday, October 26, 2025. The three-day event will be broadcast live worldwide, providing access...
Owner: Salisu Umar, Zainab Suleiman Okino & Ibrahim Sheme
Aotearoa New Zealand: Discriminatory migration system fails climate-affected Pacific People
Alieta, 55, is a teacher and mother from Tuvalu with a visual impairment. In 2016, she was left with no choice but to remove her name from her family’s PAC visa application to enable her husband and six-year-old daughter to go to Aotearoa New...
Owner: Amnesty International (Non-profit)
Sea Level Rise Hoax Exposed: The Disappearing Islands That Refuse To Disappear
Gosselin’s post reinforces this point. Germany’s Klimanachrichten here publishes an article titled “The Disappearing Islands (That Don’t Want to Disappear)” summarizes findings suggesting that the widespread assumption about low-lying islands...
Owner: Heartland Institute (Non-Profit)