COP28 Special Feature
Pacific
Experiences
of the Climate
Emergency
Peaceful and sustainable ways
forward through partnership
Toda Peace Institute supports indigenous and traditional approaches to achieving climate change mitigation and adaptation, conflict resolution, peace and security in the Pacific, in partnership with global and regional experts. This series of commissioned Global Outlook articles has a focus on Pasifika concerns and approaches to some of the big questions facing COP28, in particular with regard to the climate-conflict-peace nexus.
Viewpoints on COP28
Special Global
Outlook series
COP28, Peace and the Pacific Islands
Dr. Volker Boege outlines the major issues for Pacific Island countries at COP28, as fossil-fuel rich UAE prepares to host the meeting ...
PCC at COP28: Advocating for Phasing Out of Fossil Fuels, Funding for Loss and Damage, and Peace
Rev. James Bhagwan on the compelling reasons for the Pacific Conference of Churches to attend COP28 in Dubai ...
A Loss and Damage Fund in the Pacific?
If funding for climate change loss and damage is to reach those most affected, the real climate change adaptation that is needed is to how climate finance is delivered ...
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
John Campbell on challenges to the narrative of climate change as an existential crisis for Pacific Island countries ...
COP28 and the Unaccounted Loss and Damage for Pacific Youth
Ria Shibata writes that the voice of Pacific youth at COP28 is absolutely indispensable...
A New Pacific Diplomacy for COP28
Pacific Island countries agency and coherence at COP28 can be understood as a New Pacific Diplomacy approach...
Building Peace Amidst Climate Challenges: Insights from Conciliation Resources
Pursuing global ambitions for peace, gender equality and inclusion within a changing climate are connected and complementary goals...
This is not climate justice: The Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union
Welcomed by some, the Falepili Union does not deliver climate justice for Tuvaluan people...
Fairness and Climate Justice in the Face of Unimaginable Consequences
As COP28 gets underway in Dubai, this article highlights the major concerns and demands of Pacific Island nations seeking climate justice...
Hard-Fought COP28 Agreement on Fossil Fuels– But Climate Catastrophe Is Not Yet Averted
Is the @COP28_UAE agreement on fossil fuels a serious commitment or a failure to recognise the plight of Small Island States?...
COP28 Offers Too Little of an “Oasis" for AOSIS in a Desert of Climate Justice
COP28’s compromised text calls for a voluntary, non-binding “transition” away from fossil fuels without commitments, timetables, or enforceable steps forward....
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