Climate Change and the Pacific

This topic covers the impact and response to climate change across the Pacific. These nations are the most vulnerable in the world to the effects of climate change. Pacific communities continue to raise awareness on the impact of global warming whilst fighting to survive. SCIS no. 5423739

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The Voice of the Pacific #MyClimateActionStory
The Voice of the Pacific #MyClimateActionStory
In August 2015, youth from around the Pacific gathered in Apia, Samoa to share their climate changes stories, and to learn from one another. “Pacific people are not drowning. We are fighting. Every...
Videos
Video statement to COP26 by Tuvalu Islands Hon. Simon Kofe
A powerful statement and demonstration of the impacts of climate change on the islands of Tuvalu presented at COP26. The climate issues faced by many low-lying Pacific atolls are exacerbated by the...
Articles
The problem of racism towards Pasifika within climate change
In New Zealand, youth climate change movement School Strike 4 Climate Auckland has declared itself as racist, and disbanded, but young activists say going silent isn't the answer.
Websites
WWW
EPIC
Find more information on sustainability and the impact of climate change on Pacific nations on EPIC using databases like Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Plus and New Zealand Geographic Onli...
Audio
Marshall Islands considers island build-up for climate change adaption
The Marshall Islands is exploring building up its islands, as part of a new national plan for fighting climate change.
Articles
A youth perspective on climate talks: Time for indigenous leadership
Aotearoa-based indigenous youth collective Te Ara Whatu went to the COP25 climate talks. It's time for indigenous leadership on climate issues, a member says.
Videos
Too late for mitigation, Marshallese face climate adaptation | Q+A 2021
Too late for mitigation, Marshallese face climate adaptation | Q+A 2021
Efforts to mitigate climate change have failed, and now the Marshall Islands are planning for how they’ll adapt to a difficult and dangerous future, says an envoy at the COP26 climate summit in Gla...
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Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner United Nations Climate Summit opening 2014
Watch the powerful statement and poem about climate change in Oceania by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner at the Opening of the United Nations Climate Summit of 2014.
Videos
General Fiyah on Climate Change | Cultural Reset
General Fiyah on Climate Change | Cultural Reset
General Fiyah explains Climate Justice from a Pacific GenZ perspective. Climate Change has become THE issue on the minds of our young ones because of how tied their futures are to the crisis. In th...
Videos
The life of a sea cucumber
Find out more on the life cycle of a sea cucumber and how important they are to the sustainability of Pacific Island seas.
Videos
Climate change in the Pacific - food
Learn how communities across the Pacific are improving the resilience of food production as they adapt to the changes of Climate Change and prepare for its effects.
Articles
Climate Change
Climate Change
Many Answers has suggested links with guidelines on global warming.
Articles
What is climate change?
Climate change is defined as a long-term change to the Earth’s climate. But what does this mean? To understand climate change, we need to understand what makes up our climate.
Images
Climate change
Climate change
Digital cartoon by Malcolm Evans on political and social issues in New Zealand and internationally. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Videos
Climate Change
Climate Change
Articles
Opinion: Real climate leadership rests with hardest hit indigenous communities
Opinion - Solutions to climate change will not be found solely in future technology, but also by drawing on the practices of indigenous people, Brianna Fruean* writes.
Audio
Small Island Big Song: uniting indigenous musicians from across the Pacific
Small Island Big Song: uniting indigenous musicians from across the Pacific
Small Island Big Song is an album that unites indigenous musicians from seafaring cultures across the Pacific & Indian Oceans. All the songs were recorded in nature, using traditional instruments a...
Audio
Marshalls poet links climate change and nuke testing impacts
Marshall islands Poet links climate change and nuclear testing impacts on her community.
Videos
Climate change mitigation and adaptation in Pacific Island countries
Governments of Italy and Austria implement energy and climate change related projects in 12 Pacific Island Countries.
Articles
Adapting to rising sea levels in Marshall Islands
Understanding Marshall Islands adaptation process to building resilient islands and people in the wake of climate change.
Images
Pacific leaders release communiques on climate change from Tuvalu
Pacific leaders release communiques on climate change from Tuvalu
Digital cartoon by Sharon Murdoch smoke signals to represent the different approaches to climate change between Pacific Islands, New Zealand, and Australia. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Articles
The threat of seabed mining in the Pacific
Facing the threat of seabed mining in the Pacific a Greenpeace activist from Fiji shares his talanoa on what the implications will be for his people and the place he calls home.
Audio
Bikini Atoll government buys climate change bolthole in Hawaii
The local government of Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands has bought hundreds of acres of land in Hawaii as a climate change bolt-hole.
Websites
WWW
#HaveYourSei COP26
During COP26 Pacific youth united under the #Youth4Pacific Declaration on Climate Change. Have Your Sei is one way youth are making their presence felt at the global climate change stage.
Websites
WWW
How climate change affects the Pacific.
Learn details about how climate change affects Pacific nations.
Images
Climate Change March, 2019
Climate Change March, 2019
Photograph taken at school climate strike march on Queen Street, Auckland. Attended by an estimated 80,000 people. The marchers were rallying to protest governments inaction over climate change. Th...
Audio
Call it what it is, a climate crisis - Academic
Call it what it is, a climate crisis - Academic
Pacific academic says "climate change" is no longer an appropriate term for an existential crisis.
Articles
Pacific Islands Forum leaders urged to target worst greenhouse gas emitters for climate action
Pacific leaders meet today to demand urgent global climate action. They must focus on the key contributors to the climate crisis, an expert says.
Articles
'Trouble in Paradise' - images of the climate crisis in the Pacific
An exhibition at New Zealand's National Library will shine the spotlight on climate change in the Pacific region.
Articles
Economic impacts of climate crisis making some nations poorer - report
A new report on the economic impacts of climate change faced by the world's most at-risk countries has found the climate crisis has made vulnerable economies poorer.
Articles
Pacific NGOs urge Australia to halve emissions by 2030
Environmental and humanitarian organisations in the Pacific are urging Australia to commit to its climate responsibilities.
Articles
Global warming and tropical cyclones
Global warming has caused a decline in the amount of tropical cyclones that develop in the Pacific region. Though there are less cyclones, they have the ability to form into bigger, intense storms.
Videos
Climate change – a warming world
James Renwick, Professor of Physical Geography at Victoria University of Wellington and climate change communicator, briefly explains climate change. Questions for discussion: What are two ways of ...
Articles
Pacific tropical cyclones
Discover how and why tropical cyclones are posing a risk to the environment of the Pacific and how climate change has had an impact on this.
Articles
Tuvalu's perspective on climate change
Tuvalu has been very active in negotiating climate change efforts on the world stage. With disappearing shorelines, they make a plea to bigger nations to help them keep their homelands.
Videos
Scenes of Atafu atoll
Drone footage of Atafu, a low-lying atoll of Tokelau. This digital video footage was shot by Andrew Matautia in 2017. Matautia was commissioned to work alongside Te Papa curators and co-collectors ...
Websites
WWW
Pacific adaptation to climate change
Pacific adaptation to climate change program was created to adapt to the impacts of climate change in the Pacific.
Videos
Bearing Witness 2019: Banabans of Rabi - A story of survival
The displacement of Banabans led to their relocation on the island of Rabi in Fiji, this film documents the impacts of climate change on a resilient community.
Videos
Generation Next - Taualofa
Taualofa Totua recalls the march to parliament as a member of the Pacific Climate Warriors.
Articles
Climate funding to support Pacific seed crops
The government is putting $10 million of its $1.3 billion climate aid fund towards the Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees and the Global Crop Diversity Trust.
Videos
The Voice of the Pacific #MyClimateActionStory
The Voice of the Pacific #MyClimateActionStory
In August 2015, youth from around the Pacific gathered in Apia, Samoa to share their climate changes stories, and to learn from one another. “Pacific people are not drowning. We are fighting. Every...
Videos
Video statement to COP26 by Tuvalu Islands Hon. Simon Kofe
A powerful statement and demonstration of the impacts of climate change on the islands of Tuvalu presented at COP26. The climate issues faced by many low-lying Pacific atolls are exacerbated by the...
Articles
The problem of racism towards Pasifika within climate change
In New Zealand, youth climate change movement School Strike 4 Climate Auckland has declared itself as racist, and disbanded, but young activists say going silent isn't the answer.
Websites
WWW
EPIC
Find more information on sustainability and the impact of climate change on Pacific nations on EPIC using databases like Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Plus and New Zealand Geographic Onli...
Audio
Marshall Islands considers island build-up for climate change adaption
The Marshall Islands is exploring building up its islands, as part of a new national plan for fighting climate change.
Articles
A youth perspective on climate talks: Time for indigenous leadership
Aotearoa-based indigenous youth collective Te Ara Whatu went to the COP25 climate talks. It's time for indigenous leadership on climate issues, a member says.
Videos
Too late for mitigation, Marshallese face climate adaptation | Q+A 2021
Too late for mitigation, Marshallese face climate adaptation | Q+A 2021
Efforts to mitigate climate change have failed, and now the Marshall Islands are planning for how they’ll adapt to a difficult and dangerous future, says an envoy at the COP26 climate summit in Gla...
Videos
Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner United Nations Climate Summit opening 2014
Watch the powerful statement and poem about climate change in Oceania by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner at the Opening of the United Nations Climate Summit of 2014.
Videos
General Fiyah on Climate Change | Cultural Reset
General Fiyah on Climate Change | Cultural Reset
General Fiyah explains Climate Justice from a Pacific GenZ perspective. Climate Change has become THE issue on the minds of our young ones because of how tied their futures are to the crisis. In th...
Videos
The life of a sea cucumber
Find out more on the life cycle of a sea cucumber and how important they are to the sustainability of Pacific Island seas.
Videos
Climate change in the Pacific - food
Learn how communities across the Pacific are improving the resilience of food production as they adapt to the changes of Climate Change and prepare for its effects.
Articles
Climate Change
Climate Change
Many Answers has suggested links with guidelines on global warming.
Articles
What is climate change?
Climate change is defined as a long-term change to the Earth’s climate. But what does this mean? To understand climate change, we need to understand what makes up our climate.
Images
Climate change
Climate change
Digital cartoon by Malcolm Evans on political and social issues in New Zealand and internationally. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Videos
Climate Change
Climate Change
Articles
Opinion: Real climate leadership rests with hardest hit indigenous communities
Opinion - Solutions to climate change will not be found solely in future technology, but also by drawing on the practices of indigenous people, Brianna Fruean* writes.
Audio
Small Island Big Song: uniting indigenous musicians from across the Pacific
Small Island Big Song: uniting indigenous musicians from across the Pacific
Small Island Big Song is an album that unites indigenous musicians from seafaring cultures across the Pacific & Indian Oceans. All the songs were recorded in nature, using traditional instruments a...
Audio
Marshalls poet links climate change and nuke testing impacts
Marshall islands Poet links climate change and nuclear testing impacts on her community.
Videos
Climate change mitigation and adaptation in Pacific Island countries
Governments of Italy and Austria implement energy and climate change related projects in 12 Pacific Island Countries.
Articles
Adapting to rising sea levels in Marshall Islands
Understanding Marshall Islands adaptation process to building resilient islands and people in the wake of climate change.
Images
Pacific leaders release communiques on climate change from Tuvalu
Pacific leaders release communiques on climate change from Tuvalu
Digital cartoon by Sharon Murdoch smoke signals to represent the different approaches to climate change between Pacific Islands, New Zealand, and Australia. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Articles
The threat of seabed mining in the Pacific
Facing the threat of seabed mining in the Pacific a Greenpeace activist from Fiji shares his talanoa on what the implications will be for his people and the place he calls home.
Audio
Bikini Atoll government buys climate change bolthole in Hawaii
The local government of Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands has bought hundreds of acres of land in Hawaii as a climate change bolt-hole.
Websites
WWW
#HaveYourSei COP26
During COP26 Pacific youth united under the #Youth4Pacific Declaration on Climate Change. Have Your Sei is one way youth are making their presence felt at the global climate change stage.
Websites
WWW
How climate change affects the Pacific.
Learn details about how climate change affects Pacific nations.
Images
Climate Change March, 2019
Climate Change March, 2019
Photograph taken at school climate strike march on Queen Street, Auckland. Attended by an estimated 80,000 people. The marchers were rallying to protest governments inaction over climate change. Th...
Audio
Call it what it is, a climate crisis - Academic
Call it what it is, a climate crisis - Academic
Pacific academic says "climate change" is no longer an appropriate term for an existential crisis.
Articles
Pacific Islands Forum leaders urged to target worst greenhouse gas emitters for climate action
Pacific leaders meet today to demand urgent global climate action. They must focus on the key contributors to the climate crisis, an expert says.
Articles
'Trouble in Paradise' - images of the climate crisis in the Pacific
An exhibition at New Zealand's National Library will shine the spotlight on climate change in the Pacific region.
Articles
Economic impacts of climate crisis making some nations poorer - report
A new report on the economic impacts of climate change faced by the world's most at-risk countries has found the climate crisis has made vulnerable economies poorer.
Articles
Pacific NGOs urge Australia to halve emissions by 2030
Environmental and humanitarian organisations in the Pacific are urging Australia to commit to its climate responsibilities.
Articles
Global warming and tropical cyclones
Global warming has caused a decline in the amount of tropical cyclones that develop in the Pacific region. Though there are less cyclones, they have the ability to form into bigger, intense storms.
Videos
Climate change – a warming world
James Renwick, Professor of Physical Geography at Victoria University of Wellington and climate change communicator, briefly explains climate change. Questions for discussion: What are two ways of ...
Articles
Pacific tropical cyclones
Discover how and why tropical cyclones are posing a risk to the environment of the Pacific and how climate change has had an impact on this.
Articles
Tuvalu's perspective on climate change
Tuvalu has been very active in negotiating climate change efforts on the world stage. With disappearing shorelines, they make a plea to bigger nations to help them keep their homelands.
Videos
Scenes of Atafu atoll
Drone footage of Atafu, a low-lying atoll of Tokelau. This digital video footage was shot by Andrew Matautia in 2017. Matautia was commissioned to work alongside Te Papa curators and co-collectors ...
Websites
WWW
Pacific adaptation to climate change
Pacific adaptation to climate change program was created to adapt to the impacts of climate change in the Pacific.
Videos
Bearing Witness 2019: Banabans of Rabi - A story of survival
The displacement of Banabans led to their relocation on the island of Rabi in Fiji, this film documents the impacts of climate change on a resilient community.
Videos
Generation Next - Taualofa
Taualofa Totua recalls the march to parliament as a member of the Pacific Climate Warriors.
Articles
Climate funding to support Pacific seed crops
The government is putting $10 million of its $1.3 billion climate aid fund towards the Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees and the Global Crop Diversity Trust.

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