AGP Executive Report
Last update: 3 hours agoClimate Finance: Australia’s Chris Bowen defended the country’s climate role at Pacific Pre-COP31 talks, while acknowledging calls for an end to coal and gas exports. He said adaptation finance for small island states remains scarce. Nauru’s Climate Push: President David Adeang urged world leaders to turn climate pledges into funding, emissions cuts and practical support, warning that rising seas, drought and disasters are already hurting Pacific communities. Nature and Livelihoods: Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale pointed to the Parties to the Nauru Agreement’s tuna-management scheme as a model for sustainably managing Pacific resources and supporting local incomes. Pollution: A Minamata mercury-poisoning survivor called on countries to join the convention protecting people and the environment from toxic mercury.
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