Posts Tagged ‘Pacific climate change’

Caritas says “wipe out Pacific nations crippling climate debt”

Thursday, November 28th, 2024
Caritas

Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand is joining others from the Catholic Church’s international aid agency’s call for climate debt to be erased in vulnerable Pacific countries. Some are struggling to pay for basic social costs due to crippling debt repayment, Caritas says. Caritas spokesperson Tony Sutorius says worsening cyclones and flooding have created severe financial burdens. Read more

Climate crisis, not China, is biggest threat to Pacific

Monday, May 9th, 2022
Climate crisis threat to Pacific

Former leaders of Pacific nations have warned that the climate crisis is the biggest threat to the region, not rising military tensions. In a statement on Friday, the Pacific Elders Voice group, which includes former leaders of the Marshall Islands, Palau, Kiribati and Tuvalu, said that “the primary security threat to the Pacific is climate Read more