On Saturday 13th July, Tuvalu’s Prime Minister Faleti Teo met with the Tuvalu diaspora community in Brisbane, the largest Tuvaluan community in Australiam, to discuss the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union Treaty.

After two decades, the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) has this year commemorated the monumental journey of environmental leadership by Pacific Christian churches and enabled their recommitment to climate action through a regional and ecumenical reconvening of Pacific church leaders and partners.

Australia needs a national conversation about relocation now.

The recently concluded general election in India was shrouded in irony. The six-week long voting period coincided with one of the worst heat waves yet recorded, but there was hardly any discussion of climate change or environment-related issues in the public political discourse.

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea has found countries are obliged to protect the oceans from climate change impacts under the law of the sea.

The Quad has an opportunity (and a need) to revamp itself as a bigger, more durable platform by engaging with diverse concerns of the region, including non-traditional ones, particularly climate change.