The US and Australia are increasingly attaching defence and security conditions to aid for Pacific nations – but that aid is not seeing any real progress on development goals.
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The new deal between the countries seems to offer Nauru an economic lifeline while giving Australia security in the region. But the details reveal issues still to be resolved.
Societal collapse is a complex phenomemon tied to the abilities of a society to meet its population’s basic needs. Understanding past examples of collapse can provide valuable insights.
The ruling could be a legal game-changer for small island nations that are trying to hold developed nations to account for the impacts of their greenhouse gas emissions.
China is asserting itself in the South Pacific, prompting efforts from the US and its allies to contain its influence.
The climate migration deal has been dubbed as offering Tuvaluans a lifeline, but others say it is a neocolonial arrangement that does not tackle rising ocean levels.
A recently signed Australia-Tuvalu citizenship agreement offers people displaced by climate change a chance to ‘move with dignity’. But staying with dignity has to be an option too.
Historically, most Pacific visa programs in Australia have been tied to labour mobility. And none has specifically referenced climate change as a driving rationale.
Rising sea levels due to climate change are already having severe impacts on the nation of Tuvalu. It proposes to build a digital replica of itself in the metaverse. Could it be done?
Fishers who hunt wild tuna use fish’s natural attraction to floating objects to lure them to known positions near GPS-equipped rafts. However, these rafts are attracting increasing concern.
Australia ensured its official communique watered down commitments to respond to climate change, gaining a hollow victory.
It’s becoming increasingly obvious that Australia’s inability – or refusal – to take firmer action on climate change is undermining its entire ‘Pacific step-up’.
The Australia Institute says Scott Morrison’s “pollution loophole” is equivalent to seven years of fossil-fuel emissions from the rest of the Pacific and New Zealand.
New Zealand’s plan to create the world’s first humanitarian visa for climate refugees has to consider ways people from Pacific Island nations actually want to be assisted.
Although climate change threatens the world’s small island nations, many can find ways to adapt and preserve their homes and cultures – especially if wealthy countries cut emissions and provide support.
To many people, island nations such as Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Marshall Islands are synonymous with climate catastrophe. But prophesies of doom aren’t all that helpful.
We set out to discover whether it’s possible to reduce the alarming rates of non-communicable diseases in Pacific nations while improving nutrition security and income.
A new survey shows that many Pacific islanders are considering migrating to escape climate change. It’s time for new international rules to manage the flow.
Over-fishing is a massive environmental and economic challenge. Fortunately, there are new solutions being trialled – including in a tuna hotspot in the Pacific.
The federal government’s recent White Paper on developing northern Australia has disturbing echoes of the 1890s, a time when unbridled capitalism and indentured labour developed the North.
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University of Technology Sydney
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Industry/Professional Fellow, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; Director, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota
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Scientia Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor of International Relations, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor, School of Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Chief Scientific Advisor, Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative, University of Notre Dame
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Soil Scientist, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
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Research fellow, University of Adelaide
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Janet Dora Hine Professor, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Professor, University of Wollongong
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Director of the Migration Policy Centre and Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield
