GP2022 Pacific

A Pacific-led Campaign in the lead up to the Seventh Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2022)

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

This new report finds that 200 land and environmental defenders were killed last year in the global South, by forces repressing resistance at the extractive frontiers of the world capitalist system. A total of 1,073 have been killed over the past 10 years. https://t.co/9lPwnft8fx

[DIVA for Equality @diva4equality]

Dirt under the mat? Shake it up, sweep it out, freshen it up!
Discussions betw black & brown feminists: #FeminismForward

@diva4equality, @FemnetProg, @TongaWCCC @STPCoalitionPac @CANPacificIs @AWID @WEDO_worldwide!
⭐️Register: https://t.co/z6AvSUcezy

[UNDRR @UNDRR]

Critical infrastructure should keep society running no matter what disaster it faces.

#ItsAllAboutGovernance https://t.co/WekpxAxLB1

[Oxfam in the Pacific @oxfampacific]

Register for the Pacific Climate Justice Summit today 💚

[Pacific Islands Climate Action Network (PICAN) @CANPacificIs]

Join @afgfiji and @_Climates during the Pacific Climate Justice as they discuss the importance of financing projects at the community level where climate change impacts are felt the most.

Register now for the #pcjs2022. Visit https://t.co/GVzXALQiC1

[Indigenous Women and Girls Initiative @NetworkofIndig1]

She had not eaten anything the previous night and in the morning before coming to school, so we gave her some porridge reserved for younger children and a small loaf of bread. Within minutes she was okay,” climate change is affecting school-going children too #ClimateActionNow

[Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change @pisfcc]

Since 2012, Pacific governments, civil society, communities and youth have been campaigning to secure a UN general assembly to request the @CIJ_ICJ to deliver an advisory opinion on climate change.

We look to UN members to support the Resolution in this #UNGA77.

#EndorseTheAO

[AOSIS @AOSISChair]

📣POLLUTERS MUST PAY
📣We are calling for #ClimateJustice for small island developing states
📣The time is now for #LossAndDamage finance facility and #MVI

Watch @AOSISChair send a strong message to the world at @GlblCtzn #GlobalCitizensFestival 🙌🏽

https://t.co/gZPYw4aylo

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

Pacific Island countries are on the frontlines of climate chaos despite doing nothing to create this crisis.

I commend their powerful, consistent, and united voice urging #ClimateAction at a scale commensurate with the scope of the challenge.

[Greenpeace International @Greenpeace]

“During this time, the top one percent of emitters were responsible for nearly a quarter of all emissions contributing to the climate crisis and the top 10 percent are now responsible for nearly half of the total.”

#ClimateJustice #ActOnClimate https://t.co/AQ1Nq97Iel

[ColinMcQuistan @ColinMcQuistan]

Egypt, host of the upcoming #COP27 is working on how to include compensation for economic losses caused by climate catastrophes on the formal agenda of the November summit, as pressure grows from vulnerable countries to prioritise the issue. #LossAndDamage
https://t.co/jwVedYuxDI

[RNZ Pacific @RNZPacific]

In Vanuatu, only 180 applicants to contest the snap election on October 13 got their names published by the Electoral Commission.

https://t.co/NTUrXqgQ18

[Fiji Women's Rights Movement @FWRM1]

FWRM's GIRLS Program is marking its 10th Year Anniversary this year!
Girls’ voices have been integral to substantiating the ongoing policy & legislative reform advocacy work the organization has & continues to do.
Read more here:
https://t.co/bUtOZGlDju

@iwda @PacGirlProgram

[Collin Beck, @CollinBeck]

REPORT: Communique of the 51st Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting - https://t.co/dCbxYDwYPt

[Vishal Prasad @vishlprasad]

What a month September has been! The #ICJAO campaign is hitting new heights as we gear up for the vote during #UNGA77.

[Plan International Pilipinas @planphilippines]

Our team in Nueva Ecija recently completed their RGNA of areas impacted by #TyphoonNoru. The immediate needs of communities include water, electricity, shelter repair, food security, and medical care. Children are also in need of school supplies and temporary learning spaces.

[Marshallese Educational Initiative @MEInonprofit]

In support of the nuclear legacy resolution that was tabled earlier this week in the 51st session of the Human Rights Council, the Marshallese Educational Initiative is leading a social media campaign with the RMI Mission in Geneva to raise awareness about the ongoing effects of

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

We should be discussing the need for a profound unwinding of this Extinction Economy, but scientists & journalists won't come together to be frank with us about cataclysmic rates of change: given economic growth, 1.75 to 2°C of global warming doom will hit in years not decades.🧵

[Nic Maclellan @MaclellanNic]

Launch at #SOTP22 of the first Pacific Attitudes Survey (PAS), conducted in Samoa. PAS gauged views of ordinary Samoans on questions related to democracy, economics, governance, tradition, climate change, social media and international relations.
https://t.co/3KWCoiZgB2