Pacific Magazine Daily News
Thursday: December 04, 2008
Pacific Region
Discussions at the United Nations Climate Change Conference have concluded that Least Developed Countries (LDCs) need more financing to adapt to the impacts of...
Pacific Region
The negative impact of climate change on small island states must be used as a key benchmark to ascertain the adequacies of any long-term emission reduction...
Palau (Belau), Taiwan (Republic of China)
(Taipei Times)
The controversy over whether former Taiwan President Chen Shiu-bian took $5 million in cash to Palau during a 2006 state visit continued in...
Pacific Region
The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) has made a radical suggestion that the second commitment period for the successor Kyoto Protocol be reduced to five...
Northern Mariana Islands
(Saipan Tribune)
Northern Marianas Gov. Benigno Fitial has extended for the fifth time his emergency control over the island group’s public utility, the...
Australia, Solomon Islands
(Solomon Star)
Pacific Blue launched its Solomon Islands service when its inaugural flight touched down at Honiara International Airport around 2 p.m. on...
Pacific Region
Difficulties faced by the Pacific with implementing agencies were highlighted today at the United Nations Framework for Climate Change Convention (PACC)...
Solomon Islands
(Solomon Star)
Seven police officers suffered injuries when a group of men attacked them on Monday night at Koa Hill settlement in Honiara.
Police were...
Guam
(Pacific Daily News)
A bill signed into law this week restricts Guam voter initiatives to being placed on ballots only in gubernatorial election years, the...
Papua New Guinea, Pacific Region
Climate change for Papua New Guinea is about people, not about statistics, says its Special Envoy for the Environment, Kevin Conrad, at the United Nations...
Australia, China (People's Republic), European Union, United Kingdom, United States of America, Pacific Region
The transfer of Energy Supply Technologies (ESTs) from industrialised countries to developing countries and Least Developed Countries (LDCs) has become one of...
Cook Islands
Like most small islands states, adaptation is the major issue that Cook Islands is following at the United Nations Climate Change 14th Conference of the Parties...
Samoa, Pacific Region
The climate change adaptation process undertaken in the Pacific Islands under the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) project takes the unique method of...
Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
Frustration at the speed with which least developed countries are allocated funding for their adaptation activities was made evident in Poznan, Poland during...
Wednesday: December 03, 2008
French Polynesia
(Tahitipresse)
The Tong Sang government signed an agreement Monday with a French financial organization to finance a 7.6 million French Pacific franc...
French Polynesia
(Tahitipresse)
A controversial proposed reduction in the government's import tax exemption may end up being withdrawn from the Tong Sang government's 2009...
Vanuatu
(UNDP)
An inception workshop on Capacity Building and Mainstreaming Sustainable Land Management (SLM) in Vanuatu is currently underway at the Le Lagon in Port...
New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna
(Oceania Flash)
New hearings for a highly sensitive appeal trial have begun this week in New Caledonia’s capital Nouméa, amongst tight security,...
New Caledonia
(Oceania Flash)
The number of reported cases of serotype 4 dengue fever, a form of the virus that was until recently not prevalent in New Caledonia, continues...
Palau (Belau)
It has taken the Republic of Palau 36 months, but they are near to completing their second national communications required under the United Nations Framework...
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