⚠️Pacific Leaders⚠️
STOP using the labor mobility scheme as band-aid solution to unemployment & low MWR💲 in our region❌️
Its more then remittances ❌️ you're dealing with HUMANS not products that can be exported at will.
Address the BAD as much as you glorify the good❗️
25 years ago we were part of a @UniSouthPacific student volunteer group sent by ship to a remote Fijian village to build a much needed seawall. So good to see you again @MeliCavu. Welkam lo Hapi Isles 🇸🇧
#SamoaAgreement#Pacific#OACPS relations and shared #Pacific2050 priorities were on the agenda for SG Puna's meeting today with SecGen Georges Chikoti ahead of the Pacific-ACP Leaders Meeting this week in Rarotonga at #PIFLM52
Read the recent Pacific Regional Disaster Risk Financing Roadmap reports here: https://t.co/zux8WYuPMr
The roadmaps provide clarity on the priorities for PICs to consider to strengthen financial protection against disasters.
The 2023 Pacific Resilience Meeting Youth Forum was held with the theme: "Our People Our Strength: Securing Our Pacific Future".
Sec Gen @henrytpuna gave remarks at the hub in Suva, encouraging youth to continue fighting for the world they want.
https://t.co/FFKTY4yKlh
Tropical Storm #Bolaven is expected to intensify through Wednesday afternoon. Guam remains under COR 1, where residents are to remain indoors. The island can expect heavy rain and winds (39 mph or more). Rainfall amounts of 1-1.5 ft are forecasted.
@aptcpacific🇸🇧 Annual Principals Conference for partner #TVET providers is in full swing. 🎯 Primary focus for discussions is registration & accreditation with SITESA. 🙏 to all who have 🛳🚤🛻🚍✈️ to be with us today
#umitugedacreatingskillsforlife
#ForumNews
Today a special Forum Officials Committee Meeting was held to discuss a number of important high-level agendas such as the endorsement of the draft 2050 Strategy Implementation Plan.
#bluepacific2050
Pacific women peace-builders are leading on #climatesecurity, an issue that disproportionately affects women.
Our Climate Security Assessment Guide identifies these gendered challenges and helps create solutions.
The Guide can be found here: https://t.co/vfgW35a8Dx
After 32 days in the Opposition, I am back as Vanuatu's Minister for Climate Change Adaptation, Energy, Environment, Meteorology, Geohazards and Disaster Management. Lots to do!
Vanuatu Govt and Opposition members are camped as they wrangle for numbers. Opp are on an offshore island.
One of the MP's on the island was almost removed from the Oppo camp by a crack-pot team of supporters who sailed across to remove him and return him to govt side. Only in 🇻🇺
Today we met Lindsay Teobasi who operates a pyrolysis plant in Honiara using a common eyesore - single use plastic! As Solomon Islands Recyclers Association president, he use this waste material & converts it into cooking gas-energy that can be sold as an affordable alternative
#Palau at the #UNGA in 2023 -- "G20 nations have a crucial role to play in emission reduction and leading the path towards sustainable development...We call on the international community to work with SIDS to increase access to #climatefinance. "
See https://t.co/MCRuNmI8X9
“We have no interest in geo-politics - climate change is our single greatest security threat”, @henrytpuna PIF SG speaking @CarnegieEndow@SPF_PR in the margins of #UNGA2023
Join PANG Campaigner, Epeli Lesuma and other Fiji actors tomorrow, in discussing democracy and next generation empowerment in Fiji. Organized by IDEA and CCF to celebrate International Day of Democracy.Register and be part of the discussion: https://t.co/FQgVB4jD5U
#Democracy
I am addressing you today as a Tuvaluan mother.
What will become of us absent our island home ? As people of the ocean, we see particular significance to UNCLOS. We look to the Tribunal for justice. We have a duty, both moral and legal, towards generations to come 🇹🇻
PM of Tuvalu 🇹🇻: “No state is safe from the adverse effects of the climate crisis. (…) we among other SIDS are on the frontlines of the battleground against climate change.”
#ITLOSAO