Kelman 2011 Participatory Action for Islands

Henry and Jeffery argue that research on the ‘human dimensions’ of climate change must be expanded from its current emphasis on socio-economic modelling to include baseline local level ethnographic studies that enable understanding of the relationship between climate change and heritage. We explore the heritage dimensions of climate change by considering the notion of ‘cultural loss’ and questioning the distinction between tangible and intangible heritage.

Tarte and Fry assemble a collection of works presented at the New Pacific Diplomacy Workshop at the University of the South Pacific, December 2014.

his book brings together a range of analyses and perspectives on new developments in Pacific diplomacy at sub-regional, regional and global levels, and in the key sectors of global negotiation for Pacific states: oceans management, fisheries, climate change, sustainable development, de-colonisation, seabed mining, and trade.

It also examines state and non‑government roles in this new Pacific diplomacy. The book also focuses on the question of the significance of these new developments in negotiating global issues of key importance to the Pacific, and the implications for the future of the regional diplomatic architecture.

This paper asks what might be gained through combining disaster research, island studies, and participatory action research to emphasize the significance of an island context when dealing with disasters. 

limate change and impact mitigation is central to the shipping industry. Targets and standards that aim to reduce emissions and mitigate impact will apply either to all ships or to certain ship types or ship activities. The impact of this regulatory agenda on maritime activities is heavily dependent on international conventions and decisions taken at the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Some scholars have pointed to the undue influence of firms on the IMO via ‘corporate capture’. Mainstream scholarship assumes that decisive influence comes from powerful states. This article deploys a polycentric approach to argue that governance outcomes are often a function of the particularities of the negotiating process as opposed to the characteristics and resources of the negotiating parties.

Pacific nations lead call to clean up shipping industry

This 8 page Executive Summary lists 9 key findings of coral bleaching globally over the last 40 years and to date.

SPC releases it Monitoring and Evaluation Methodology based on the Rebbilib - The Marshallese Navigational Chart

The theme study Changing Sails: Accelerating Regional Actions for Sustainable Oceans in Asia and the Pacific explores the key areas around which regional platforms can rally interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral solutions for the ocean. It highlights the lack of data and statistics on the ocean, the growing demand for moving towards inclusive and green maritime shipping, deteriorating fish stocks and gaps in fisheries management and the mounting pressure of marine plastic pollution. The theme study calls for enhanced sharing of ocean data and stronger investment in national statistical systems for collecting and harmonizing ocean data. It underscores the need for enforcing international conventions, norms and standards in relation to maritime shipping, sustainable fisheries and marine pollution. Finally, it proposes strengthening regional platforms such as the Asia-Pacific Day for the Ocean as avenues for building partnerships, facilitating knowledge and data-sharing and supporting the implementation and monitoring of global agreements.

Selected papers presented at the Climate Change and Migration in the South Pacific Region: Policy Perspectives Conference. The Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, hosted this conference on 9–10 July 2009.  The aim of the conference was two-fold: first, to examine potential drivers and dynamics of regional migration in a climate change–affected world; and second, in terms of preparing for climate change–related migration at the regional level, to move from the descriptive to the prescriptive.

Climate Vulnerable Forum, November 2021 COP 26.  countries most-threatened by the impacts of global warming across four continents identified their key concerns to tackle the climate emergency.  

8. We acknowledge that the shipping and aviation sectors are sign漁cant Contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions. We therefore strongly Support initiatives being developed by the Republic of the Marshall Islands to establish a Centre for Sustainable Sea Transport. We call on the Green Climate Fund and other donor sources to support such an initiative.

We firmly believe that the Coalition ofAtoll Nations on Climate Change is an effectve institution for raising the voice of the most vulnerable nations and communities to the impacts of climate change・ We call on donors to provide financial support to assist in secretarial support from within our membership to service our membership"

Members of the Climate Vulnerable Forum adopted a statement urging UNFCCC COP26 in Glasgow  to Deliver a “Climate Emergency Pact” to rebuild confidence in international climate cooperation, accelerate adaptation and to keep 1.5ºC within reach based on the recent findings of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment report (AR6).  This also includes mobilising a climate finance delivery plan from 2020 - 2024 and for the UK COP Presidency to take full responsibility of this plan; for developed countries and major emitters to work year in and year out to raise the Ambition to accelerate adaptation for people etc.

This  report  on  progress  in the  Pacific provides  a  consolidated  view  of actions  taken to implement  the  Mauritius  Strategy  in the  region.  It  covers  the  Pacific  SIDS of  the  Cook Islands,  the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Republic  of the  Marshall Islands,  Samoa, the  Solomon Islands, Timor  Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu,  and  Vanuatu. The report  highlights established frameworks  for  action,  concrete actions taken, lessons learned, remaining challenges for the way forward and the effectiveness of implementation support and mechanisms.

...The Pacific islands is one of the most aid-dependent regions in the world. In a recent paper published by Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies (available in early view, free of charge, here), we use OECD data to examine developments in the delivery of foreign aid to the region since the year 2000. This post focuses on the amount of aid provided to the region, including its allocation, how it has changed over time, and its source...

While aid to Pacific nations has remained relatively stable in real terms since 1970, increasing moderately in the last decade, it has increased more than six-fold in sub-Saharan Africa over the same period, and
almost three-fold in other developing countries. ODA to the Pacific increased by one-third since 2000, across all developing countries it doubled, and in sub-Saharan Africa the increase was higher still, with ODA in 2014 230 percent what it was in 2000.

This article discusses some views on from the Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) on climate change and development impacts, on environmental sustainability, development impacts and resilience in the South Pacific Region

Levine says that smallness does not equate to simplicity so far as constitutional, electoral and executive arrangements are concerned.  While this text lacks a chapter on issues relevant to the Pacific for example Climate Change, understanding the governance structures are essential to understand how the systems work in these political arrangements.