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Trump’s Mineral Policy Offers Strategic Opportunity in the Pacific
The Gateway Pundit
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July 4, 2025
Credit: FOX Sunday Morning Futures screenshot A seabed mining agreement with the island nation of Nauru would reduce China’s influence while establishing America as an industry authority This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire. By...
Natural Disaster Statistics 2024 – By Type, Country, Death Toll, Region, World Risk Index and Safety Measures
Hollywood Gazette
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August 24, 2024
Natural Disaster Statistics 2024 – By Type, Country, Death Toll, Region, World Risk Index and Safety Measures August 18, 2024 — Introduction There has been a tremendous increase in natural disasters worldwide in the last two decades, along with...
Pacific Islands Forum head: Island region ‘must remain a beacon of…
Pacific News Service
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The Pacific Islands Forum’s secretary general has reaffirmed the region’s commitment to a united, resilient and inclusive Blue Pacific Continent. “In a world increasingly marked by turbulence, the Pacific must remain a beacon of hope and unity,”...
Collaboration needed now to address sustainable fisheries management
The Islandsun
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March 2, 2025
By Loretta B Manele Collaboration among Pacific Island states is needed now more than ever to help address sustainable fisheries management. Baron Divavesi Waqa, Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) stressed on this at the Honiara...
Pacific Islands focus: diplomatic relations, environmental disasters and concerns about cancer
Croakey Health Media
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March 4, 2025
Introduction by Croakey: As we monitor Tropical Cyclone Alfred – expected to make landfall in south-east Queensland late on Thursday or early Friday – Fiji recovers from storm damage after category two Tropical Cyclone Rae passed the Lao Island...
Not just the UAE: these countries offer a golden visa to investors
The National News
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For years, countries have introduced golden visas to promote foreign investment and attract talented people. Those who apply for a golden visa can acquire a second passport, or at least residency in another country for themselves and their family...
Forum SG Waqa calls for unified action on sustainable fisheries at…
Pacific News Service
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Forum Secretary General, Baron Waqa has highlighted the critical need for sustainable fisheries management to safeguard the Pacific’s future. Addressing the Honiara Summit on Pacific Islands’ Response to SDG14.4, Waqa reminded the Pacific Small...
Island nation of Nauru sells citizenship to fund mass inland resettlement
Babel
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The Pacific island nation of Nauru is selling citizenship to raise money for mass inland relocation due to rising sea levels. This was reported by President David Adeang. Nauru, a nation of 13 000, is planning to move people away from a coastal...
Will it be enough? Facing climate crisis, Nauru sells citizenship in ‘golden passports’ for survival
Malay Mail
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February 26, 2025
SYDNEY, Feb 26 — Pacific microstate Nauru is selling citizenship to fund its retreat from rising seas, President David Adeang told AFP, opening a contentious “golden passport” scheme as other climate financing runs dry. The low-lying island nation...
Pacific islands to push for enhanced resource mobilisation at resumed biodiversity...
Pacific News Service
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Pacific Islands will be sitting at the global negotiations table this week, calling for increased funding and support to conserve and protect our Pacific biodiversity. Following the suspension of the Sixteenth Conference of the Parties to the...
Pacific islands to push for enhanced resource mobilisation at resumed biodiversity conference
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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February 25, 2025
Pacific Islands will be sitting at the global negotiations table this week, calling for increased funding and support to conserve and protect our Pacific biodiversity. Following the suspension of the Sixteenth Conference of the Parties to the...
Landmark funding to protect benefits of tuna against climate change
Television Niue
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February 25, 2025
A significant grant of US$107 million dollars has been awarded to the Conservation International and the Pacific Community to support 14 Pacific countries including Niue. The funding aims to protect the economic and social benefits derived from...
Tiny island nation is selling passports to beat climate change
Penn Live - Pennsylvania
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February 23, 2025
By Chanyaporn Chanjaroen, Ishika Mookerjee, Bernadette Toh, Bloomberg News (TNS) To help meet the cost of moving about 10,000 residents from low-lying homes menaced by rising sea levels and floods, the remote Pacific Ocean nation of Nauruaims to...
‘Deplorable’ Nauru visa deal to face court challenge
Islands Business
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February 25, 2025
A proliferation of security deals in the Pacific may be harming rather than helping the region and increasing the risk of conflict, observers have warned. Geopolitical tensions were among the most hotly debated topics at the recent Pacific Islands...
Nauru’s new citizenship programme is leading the world
Pacific News Service
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Op-Ed by Edward Clark Generating revenue has always been a challenge for Pacific Island nations, but the amount of funding required has dramatically increased with the need for large-scale climate resilience solutions, including expensive...
14 Pacific Island countries receive a major grant to manage one third of the world’s tuna in the face of the climate crisis
Pacific Community (SPC)
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Fololina Avia, received an ADB funded small business grant to expand her "Lady Edwina" fishing company and stall at the Apia fish market. Copyright Asian Development Bank/ Flickr Creative Commons The programme, with a total value of US$156.8 M –...
An island nation sells passports to beat climate change
Taipei Times
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February 19, 2025
Foreigners paying at least US$140,500 for a passport will likely never step foot on the island nation To help meet the cost of moving about 10,000 residents from low-lying homes menaced by rising sea levels and floods, the remote Pacific Ocean...
Nauru introduces citizenship by investment program
ARY News
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December 4, 2024
Nauru has launched the Nauru Economic and Climate Resilience Citizenship Program (NECRCP), a unique initiative combining economic development with climate protection. The announcement was made during the United Nations Climate Change Conference...
Time and Temporality before the ICJ in the Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change
EJIL: Talk!
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February 14, 2025
The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change is one of a string of recent cases which has brought the ICJ to the centre of public discussions of international law (see coverage of proceedings on the BBC, the...
Pacific airlines team up for pilot cadetships, four countries sign new trade and healthy food deal
The New Zealand Herald
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July 4, 2025
The airlines said the programme would include “rigorous training, structured mentorship, and professional development to produce a pilot workforce trained to operate in complex and remote Pacific environments”. The two airlines said they would...