Pacific Journalists focus on traditional knowledge in climate change
07/06/2021 By: Pacific Environment Weekly
Samoa
Journalists from across the Pacific focused on the role of traditional knowledge in reporting on climate change during a Media Masterclass on the sidelines of the Pacific Resilience Meeting 2021. The…
Resilience starts at home and it starts with us: Tuvalu PM
06/07/2021 By: Elenoa Turagaiviu
FBC News, Fiji
A call has been made for Pacific people to engage and be involved in elevating resilient actions from our homes to the globe for the future of our planet and all of humanity.
The call was made by Tuvalu’s…
Traditional resilience accelerates recovery in Bua communities
07/07/2021 By Elenoa Turagaiviu
FBC News
Traditional resilience systems helped accelerate recovery efforts in communities in Bua after the successive tropical cyclones of Yasa and Ana.
Speaking at the Pacific Resilience Meeting plenary on ‘The Shift to…
Bua embraces traditional resilience and survival practices
07/07/2021 By: Lusi Banuve-Leqa
MaiTV, Fiji
We didn’t spend a lot of time waiting for help from the government, we looked at what we could do to move forward and worked with that, Bua CSO Community head Radovibua Tagivetaua said.
Speaking…
Drue: The village caught between a rock and a hard place
In the remote village of Drue on the Fijian island of Kadavu, the locals face a life-changing decision: to remain at the mercy of the rising ocean or move their entire community to higher ground.
Sixty-three-year-old stroke survivor Miriama (Miri)…
Pacific Resilience Meeting 2021: Our people, our journey: Nurturing Pacific Resilience from Home
This week the Pacific Community (SPC), together with development partners, will host the biennial Pacific Resilience Meeting 2021, focussing on the theme ‘Our people, our journey: nurturing Pacific resilience from home’.
This meeting is set to convene…
Remarks by SPC DG, Dr Stuart Minchin at the Opening of the Pacific Resilience Meeting’s Youth Forum
STATEMENT BY DR MINCHIN
DELIVERED AT OPENING OF THE YOUTH FORUM
PACIFIC RESILIENCE MEETING (VIRTUAL MEETING)
5 JULY 2021
Secretary General for the Pacific Islands Forum – Secretary General Henry Puna
Youth Representative – Tokasa…
Vaka Moana
The Pacific Ocean, intrinsic to our identity, is under multiple stressors and we are committed to acting collectively to sustain our ocean for future generations. As stewards of the Pacific Ocean, the largest ecosystem on the planet, we have millennia…
Towards a decade for Oceans: Protecting the Pacific’s most valuable resource
In literature, there are countless stories of adventures across the ‘7 seas’, each body of water with its own history, character and culture. For most of history each of our oceans were seen as a different world, similar but disconnected, in the same way…