ICYMI: Leading actors in gender equality from across the Pacific gathered at the Pacific Convening Event in Fiji on 11 and 12 May to talk about gender equality priorities for the Pacific. (1/3)
PACIFIC CHILDREN ARE FACING 6 TIMES MORE DISASTERS... AND RISING HEALTH CHALLENGES, FOOD, WATER, HOUSING, POVERTY ISSUES, ETC.
#ClimateInaction affects everyone, including #PacificChildren
An intense yet productive day 2 of the 24th Meeting of the UN High-Level Panel on the Multidimensional Vulnerability Index. The meeting is finetuning its work on an #MVI tool that is intended to help small island states better withstand and prepare for external shocks.
@SustDev
1/2. “The #LossAndDamage Fund should not just a funding function but also an oversight function… It should keep an eye on people to see that they are getting sufficient support. [after a #ClimateDisaster.” @harjeet11 of @CANIntl for ENGO at #TC2.
Of the $79billion available for climate finance in 2019, under 2% was accessed by small island societies, including via small island States in the Pacific.
Commitments do not = access!
And even when accessed, ensure finance gets to grassroots led social movts as w as Govts..
This should have been one of the first 100Days promises to repeal all these dangerous moves against civic space and right to freedom of expression - that were led by the last Fed Government...Right?
Very dangerous: @AlboMP@tanya_plibersek@SenatorWong@iwda@act
"Environmental & climate finance is not about solidarity between the #globalnorth & the #globalsouth, it is all about #reparations, #accountability, and #justice!" Read the full statements delivered at the preparatory consultation at the HLD on #Fin4Dev https://t.co/ntvubPId6k
Nigerian climate activist @Ken_Henshaw slams Shell's neocolonial exploitation and demands reparations for decades of pollution.
"They have simply made the Niger Delta an ecological time bomb."
STOP, JAPAN!
URGENT STATEMENT BY AFRICAN, CARIBBEAN & PACIFIC STATES: @PressACP@ChikotiGeorges on Govt of Japan’s decision to continue w plan to release radioactive contaminated water fr Fukushima into #Pacific Ocean
https://t.co/BGxTdgmStg @slrabuka@GovtOfVanuatu @Fiji_MOFA
JAPAN : STOP!
IF YOU DUMP YOUR NUCLEAR WASTE WATER IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN, YOU CANNOT HAVE PACIFIC FISH WHICH YOU BUY (AND YOU WON'T WANT IT ANYWAY SOON, AS YOU WILL DESTROY OUR REMAINING HEALTHY OCEANIC FOOD CHAINS)...