Listening to 🇸🇧 Vice Chancellor Transform Aqorau on the innovation needed to incorporate traditional Indigenous knowledge into legal systems, hybrid governance models that are culturally relevant, the integration of TK into environmental policy, and education that is place based.

"During his 2017-2021 term, Trump withdrew the US from the Paris Deal, arguing it was unnecessary and put the country at a competitive disadvantage to China. Trump’s campaign said he’d do it again if he wins in November." reuters.com/sustainability…

"In 2023 flows to Ukraine classified by the OECD as ODA exceeded equivalent flows to the entire African continent. Obviously, Ukraine is at war. But even bloodier & disastrous conflicts have convulsed Ethiopia & Sudan in recent years without any commensurate Western engagement."

Tamatoa Tepuhiarii shares our stories of nuclear testing in Ma’ohi Nui/French Polynesia from 1966-1996 It’s important to keep talking about this bc the consequences are far from over (environment, social and health-wise) abc.net.au/pacific/progra…

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Vanuatu hosted its first women in fisheries forum and shares some of the lessons learned. Check out the latest version of the Women in Fisheries Information Bulletin to learn more. Pacific Community FAO Asia Pacific purl.org/spc/digilib/do…

The "new" EPR reactor in Flamanville, France finally came on line yesterday. And then shut down. Oops. It's only 12 years late and four times over budget but who's counting? EDF says it's a "long and complex startup process". Understatement any? france24.com/en/live-news/2…

Crew members on board HMNZS Pukaki scrub down the ship's deck in an attempt to remove radioactive material after a nuclear tests of Operation «Grapple». 1957.

#PIFLM53 Pacific solutions for a 2050 world- the #PacificResilienceFacility fuses our climate realities to grants saving 7$ in building back for every dollar spent on #PRF disaster preparedness. Finau Soqo shares the next level for our #PacificResilience story. #Pacific2050

“It’s just testing the waters. What I’m saying here is we have colonial partners, if you cannot come in, then we have the last card, the Chinese card, that I will be playing. So I’m very frank and honest”, Toroama said. benarnews.org/english/news/p…

At least 34 priests & missionaries. 15 Pacific nations. Seven months, hundreds of documents, countless sources. So grateful to be on the The New York Times front page exposing allegedly abusive Western priests shuffling to the world's most Christian region. nytimes.com/2024/09/06/wor…

Pope Francis landed at the Apec Terminal, Jacksons Airport in Port Moresby at 7:15 pm and was welcomed by Deputy Prime Minister John Rosso and the dignitaries. He came on an the Garuda Indonesia plane which took him more than 5 hours to arrive here in Papua New Guinea.

"I was moved by the Indonesian Police officers covering all the demonstrators when the Holy Father Pope Francis passed by to go to the Vatican embassy in Jakarta, in a depressed and surrounded situation we only shouted loudly Pope Francis....West Papua.."