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Google.org recently announced that it is committing another US$5 mil to the AVPN's APAC Sustainability Seed Fund to support Asia-based non-profits to address...

The Fund is providing important support but access remains a challenge. Australia re-joining could make the difference

GCF this week welcomed over 170 representatives from Pacific Islands countries, Accredited Entities to the GCF, development partners, civil society and the...

Local adaptation models are being used to redesign community responses to climate change.

As COP29 kicks off in Baku, an ambitious finance deal is needed to keep Paris Agreement emissions goals in reach.

PCIC collect and produce climate data, making it publicly available with an open licence.

Fiji's prime minister says he fears Pacific island nations are "doomed" because industrialised countries appear set to reject a global climate pact at

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Tens of millions of people are migrating in South Asia due to disasters brought on by climate change, and the number could rise three-fold in 30 years unless...

Joy at 'historic' climate damages deal - Asia & Pacific - The Jakarta Post

The future of global climate action hinges heavily on the 2015 climate agreement, and a well-designed legal structure for the agreement is necessary to would...

Investors, companies and governments continue to incentivise activities that compound climate risk instead of mitigate it, making decisions that are...

ICJ Ruling: Pacific nations gain crucial support in climate change battle.

Addressing urban poor difficulties alongside climate change challenges was the main concern at one of the key sideline events at the recent Conference of the...

Opening remarks by Mr Darryl Chan, Deputy Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, at the "Climate Business Forum: Asia Pacific 2025", Hong Kong, 9...

Also speaking at Climate Desk Live's April 1 Seattle event will be Grist's David Roberts and University of Washington College of the Environment Dean Lisa...

Falsehoods spread by oil companies, climate skeptics and others are a threat to progress against global warming, campaigners say.

Despite political gridlock within countries and at global summits, climate change and ecological degradation are creating undeniable economic momentum. As...

Only four of the twelve ships, including two coal ships, scheduled to pass through the port were able to break the blockade lead by a group of Pacific Climate...

PCIC collect and produce climate data, making it publicly available with an open licence.

Biden said his administration is requesting Congress approve $200 million in new assistance for the region, including financing to help the islands prepare for...

Climate scepticism appears to be a uniquely Western phenomenon, with no equivalent in Chinese media. Do Chinese journos understand science better, or are...

For thousands of years, Pacific lamprey and Pacific eulachon have been important traditional foods for Native American tribes of the Columbia River Basin and...

SYDNEY, Dec 10 (IPS) - Advancing development of the new Climate Loss and Damage Fund was a key call by Pacific Island nations at the COP29 United Nations...

Bangladesh's congested capital Dhaka joins the ranks of South Asian cities drawing up plans to prepare for a hotter, wetter future.

The Asian Development Bank today welcomed the scaled-up commitments from its developing member countries at COP26 as a promising step forward to strengthen...

The British Minister of State says that Pacific island countries need to develop the infrastructure to manage financing for climate change adaptation. Hugo...

News, opinion, press releases, research, events and jobs related to the SDG Climate action

Lawsuits are reshaping climate justice following landmark 2025 rulings, with cases rising in the Global South.

Extreme weather patterns and natural disasters this summer point to a future of worse weather driven by climate change. How can billions of at-risk people...

Amundi Msci Pacific Ex Japan Sri Climate Paris Aligned - Ucits Etf Dr - Eur (C) (LU1602144906). Scopri le quotazioni in tempo reale, l'andamento grafico, i...

Three years ago, Nepal included climate in its national education goals for the first time. But understanding remains poor among many children in the...

When you search for Tahiti on Google Earth, the globe turns blue. This simple act is a powerful reminder of our reality: we are a country of islands, 99.9%...

Global Citizen explores just some of the ways Australian aid fought climate change in 2021.

Recent research led by the National Geographic Society found that protecting the right places in the ocean would safeguard unique and irreplaceable marine...

Government agencies charged with devising effective policies to clean up our fossil-fuel-based economies often lack the resources and expertise to do so,...

Learn about upcoming events and seminars from PCIC or access recordings of past events.

A new study tells us how we can have both.

The World Wide Fund for Nature today expressed concern for Pacific Island communities experiencing king tide flooding made worse by climate change.

Comments on Expanding coal exports in the Northwest, including the proposed Cherry Point terminal outside of Bellingham, would produce 420 million tons of...

Youth activists are campaigning against coal and tree loss, while workers get little help to adapt to climate impacts.

A new international tax taskforce is exploring tax policies that could finance sustainable development and climate action. This could pave the way for a fair...

The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) convened several organisations and officials to highlight the work of...

Standing on this sliver of land in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, I was on the frontline of the climate crisis literally.

Young people in Australia, Vanuatu, and New Zealand are using their voices for climate action. They are showing the world that protecting the planet means...

Some of climate change's sharpest realities are being felt on small island nations, where extreme weather is claiming homes and triggering displacement....

European Climate Foundation chief and former French climate ambassador Laurence Tubiana calls for higher ambition from the global community in order to meet...

The late Stephen Schneider was one of the most influential and eloquent advocates for human-caused climate change.

Much of the international community has been under the illusion that climate action and development are different pursuits. But to make progress on both...

The Plan2Adapt tool provides information about projected climate change for regions across BC.

After Typhoon Vamco and a series of cyclones recently caused the country's worst flooding in years, the Philippine president attributed the disasters to...

Jingwen Wu is a Post Doctoral Research Hydrologist

The Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC) provides practical information on the physical impacts of climate variability and change in the Pacific Region of...

Climate change pushes more people more to migrate, only for many to face instability and abuse.

King Charles III called for rapid climate and nature action at the COP28 UN climate talks in Dubai.

OverviewThe Pacific Regional Climate Centre Network (RCC-N) will meet to finalization preparation for its designation application in potentially March 2026...

Extreme heat, storms and food insecurity fuel violence against women as climate change ramps up risk factors.

While providing details of the threats facing humanity, the IPCC has failed once again to recognise the centrality of migration. The movement of people is...

The One Planet Summit, which took place in Paris last week, has released its 12 financial commitments, some of which will benefit the Pacific.

Unseasonal rains, pest outbreaks and land degradation are driving crop losses in India, while toxins, poor grain quality and delayed harvests threaten health...

Commercially important marine fish and invertebrate species will likely shift northwards under a warmer climate, according to new research.

Is climate change poised to create the world's most inclusive and powerful movement? Brown University student Kari Malkki shares why 2016 could be a turning...

Nov 11, 2025 - “Our goal is to remind negotiators that behind every policy decision are real people and real lives at risk.”

While government message boards and NGOs are growing in importance, community self-organising remains crucial.

Rising prices and climate change are closely linked. Rather than being treated solely as an environmental issue, climate change must be central to economic...

Big business and financial markets need to rapidly take climate action, or risk becoming irrelevant in a post-Paris world, says Sindicatum Sustainable...

The Initiative is founded on an easier access to climate change adaptation and NbS funding in the Pacific.

Our publications include technical reports and peer-reviewed papers that communicate the results of our applied research to regional stakeholders and the...

Nov 19, 2025 - We are excited to announce the official launch of the Pacific regional climate change assessment for fisheries and aquaculture, led […]

Sep 30, 2025 - Pacific Island leaders took turns addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York, speaking on a range of issues - from local to global - that...

Campaigning for the city-state's general elections has crossed the halfway mark, but climate has hardly featured as an electoral issue. Eco-Business hits the...

Robert Socolow, the co-author of an influential plan to reduce carbon emissions, revisits his work seven years later to understand why it failed.

Although most people care deeply about addressing the climate crisis, only a minority of respondents in recent surveys trust their governments to achieve a...

Flying in cutting-edge technology and travelling responsibly to your next holiday memory.

Doha, Qatar - Oil and gas-rich Qatar is setting up its first Climate Change Research Institute in partnership with the Germany-based Postdam Institute for...

Ben Lecomte is the first person to try to swim across the Pacific Ocean. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to him from Choshi, Japan, before he departs to...

After a slow start to the 2016 hurricane season, storms in the eastern North Pacific Ocean were plentiful during July and the beginning of August.

Event organisers face growing pressure to curb their environmental footprint. But confusion over how to measure the climate cost of an event and who's...

Our southwest Pacific research focuses on recent and historic climate and weather activity, including our involvement in ACRE Pacific data rescue.

Comments on Expanding coal exports in the Northwest, including the proposed Cherry Point terminal outside of Bellingham, would produce 420 million tons of...

Whether or not any progress is made at COP 21 in Paris this December, the mitigation element of INDCs could become the roadmaps for sustainable development,...

PCIC collect and produce climate data, making it publicly available with an open licence.

Izzy Farmer is the User Engagement Coordinator at PCIC.

Finding new ways to tell the underlying story of climate change is a challenge - but some are rising to it, says James Painter.

The following is issued on behalf of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority: Emerging markets across the Asia-Pacific region are seeking capital and innovative...

Brazilian expert says developing countries must also play their part in cutting emissions if the world is to avoid dangerous climate change.

Stockholm (AFP) Oct 1, 2025 - A youth-led student group and a human-rights lawyer that took the issue of climate to the International Court of Justice (ICJ)...

This document presents the results of a partnership between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Secretariat of the Pacific...

May 29, 2024 - Hosted by the government of Malaysia in the city of Johor Bahru, the Asia-Pacific Climate Week 2023 will take place from 13-17 November at the Persada Johor...

Major ecological realignments are already occurring in response to climate change. To be successful, conservation strategies now need to account for...

While government message boards and NGOs are growing in importance, community self-organising remains crucial.