Climate change poses diverse risks to the food security of individuals and communities in small Pacific Island states and offers a challenge to human rights. Climate change is likely to emphasize contemporary environmental trends and problems, ranging from land degradation, deforestation and the loss ...
"It is true that many low-lying atolls are increasingly affected by climate-related conditions like rising sea levels and coastal inundation," Yvonne Underhill-Sem, co-lead of the University of Auckland research team, told China Daily. She said Pacific Island nations are working on a range of ...
Tapusalaia Terry Toomata, the Samoa Ambassador to China, said climate change should be tackled with practical actions, noting that China swiftly established the cooperation center to assist Pacific Island countries. Under the climate change cooperation mechanism of the center, China and Pacific Island...
Climate changeloss and damagecompensationadaptationvulnerabilityPacific Island CountriesClimate change loss and damage (L&D) presents an existential threat to the Pacific Island Countries. Having contributed least to total greenhouse gas emissions, the nations of the South Pacific are highly vulnerable to ...
The Pacific island countries will need to increase their attention to climate change adaptation, because while atoll states are most vulnerable to the loss of fresh water lenses and inundation, those living in river deltas and high altitude regions of larger islands are also exposed to flooding an...
A cooperation center for China and Pacific Island countries on climate change was launched Thursday. /VCG The unveiling ceremony of the center and the opening ceremony of China-Pacific Island countries' high-level dialogue on climate change were held via video link on Thursday, wit...
JINAN, April 28 (Xinhua) -- A cooperation center for China and Pacific Island countries on climate change was launched Thursday in east China's Shandong Province. Jointly built by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and Shandong Province, the center is loca...
Pacific Island ecosystems display characteristics distinct from continental settings. Many species are endemic and often endangered, and interact within rare and threatened native landscapes and seascapes. Marine processes are critical factors in the region’s climate systems, and their impacts occur more ...
In the Pacific Island region, marine resources make vital contributions to food security, livelihoods and economic development. Climate change is expected to have profound effects on the status and distribution of coastal and oceanic habitats, the fish and invertebrates they support and, as a result...
Pacific Island nations(太平洋岛国)may not have got everything they hoped for at COP27, theUnited Nations Climate Change Conferencein Egypt, but they, along with other poorer countries, did manage to get rich nations to agree to establish aloss and damage fund. ...