Pacific Islands climate change

Seven years after the Paris Agreement, Pacific Islanders demonstrate leadership and resolve in the face of the climate crisis.

The U.S. and Australia cannot meaningfully counter China’s rising influence without addressing the Pacific Islands’ top concern.

Pacific Islanders face unique challenges just in traveling to Glasgow amid the pandemic, limiting their voices at the climate conference.

Prime Minister James Marape championed the Pacific's climate push at the 76th United Nations General Assembly with a proposal to preserve PNG's rainforest in exchange for development financing.

As Australia struggles with climate changes impacts, so too will its neighbors.

China's outreach to Pacific island states is gaining steam, to the chagrin of other regional powers.

The Pacific Islands Forum ended with island leaders frustrated – and furious – over Australia's intransigence on coal.

In the Pacific, climate change is an existential threat. Australia’s domestic unease on the issue hinders its foreign policy.

Thinking of the Pacific Islands as a bloc obscures the complexity of the individual interests of each nation.

The Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting provided an opportunity for Japan to respond to Chinese influence in the region.

Ostensibly to survey cyclone damage, the prime minister’s trip also underscores Wellington’s refocusing on its Pacific Island relationships.