Opinion / Pacific Islands
Policy & Finance
Keeping small islands financially afloat
The international community has recognised the special circumstances facing small island developing states, but has done little more to help. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the global financial system, where SIDS often must fend for themselves – small fish at the mercy of predatory sharks.
Indigenous knowledge has helped guide Pacific Islanders’ resilience and adaptation to changing climates for centuries, but it is still often overlooked.
Policy & Finance
Who’s willing to pay for sustainability in the Pacific?
After major setbacks to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the Pacific needs fairer access to financing as it fights to overcome climate challenges.
Authoritarian governments have weaponised online tools and platforms to control journalists and stifle freedom of expression.
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Red alert for blue planet and small island states
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