Opinion / Pacific Islands
Policy & Finance
Climate hazards are a kind of violence: How planned international migration offers solutions
Unlike war, environmental impacts are not accepted as a reason to seek asylum under international law. But this could change as Australia’s climate visa for citizens of small-island state Tuvalu legalises the status of the climate migrant.
Policy & Finance
Credit ratings and climate chaos
During the pandemic, 11 of 16 Small Island Developing States got a downgrade or negative credit outlook from at least one of the big three credit rating agencies, threatening both economic development and climate adaptation efforts.
Carbon & Climate
COP28: Say climate crisis, think health crisis
COP28 will include the conference's first dedicated 'Health Day', offering due recognition that a health crisis is inextricably linked to the climate crisis.
Carbon & Climate
Exploring the intersection of business and our ecology
Founder and managing director Jessica Cheam investigates the relationship between business and our natural world, and shares about the genesis of Eco-Business in this book chapter contribution to 'Peace and Nature', a book compilation of 50 essays and edited by Professor Tommy Koh, Lye Lin Heng and Shawn Lum launched in Singapore recently.
All Pacific Islands Opinion
23 May 2023
Policy & Finance
Keeping small islands financially afloat
22 December 2022
14 July 2022
Policy & Finance
Who’s willing to pay for sustainability in the Pacific?
3 March 2022
25 February 2022
19 October 2021
Carbon & Climate
What developing countries need to reach net zero
18 September 2020
Policy & Finance
Not enough climate action in stimulus plans
11 September 2020
5 May 2020
Policy & Finance
Impact of Covid-19 on tourism in small island developing states
27 April 2020
23 April 2020
18 February 2020
4 November 2019
Carbon & Climate
Red alert for blue planet and small island states
30 September 2019
Carbon & Climate
Saving Pacific islanders from geoengineering
19 September 2019
Carbon & Climate
Islands of climate ambition
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