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Sinking island states face an uncertain legal future.
Coral reef conservation needs to take an equitable approach and include local impacted communities in decision-making and resource distribution.
The rush for ‘climate visas’ to escape Tuvalu shows the extraordinary need for schemes that enable people to migrate in a warmer world.
As China seeks to expand its influence in our region, Pacific leaders have questioned Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s climate action stance.
The Australia–Tuvalu Falepili Union, as it is known, is the world’s first bilateral agreement to create a special visa like this in the context of climate change.
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.
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.
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Scientia Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
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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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Research Fellow, Australian National University
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Associate professor, Johns Hopkins University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota
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Professor, School of Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Soil Scientist, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
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Chief Scientific Advisor, Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative, University of Notre Dame
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Research fellow, Adelaide University
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Research Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Professor, University of Wollongong
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Postdoctoral Climate Crisis Research Fellow, University of Canterbury
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Janet Dora Hine Professor, University of Sydney