Vanuatu
- Asia Pacific, Australia news, Business, China, Commodities, Cost of living crisis, Energy industry, India, Japan, New Zealand, Oil, Oil and gas companies, Pacific islands, South and Central Asia, South Korea, South Pacific, Thailand, US-Israel war on Iran, Vanuatu, World news
A day in the life of Asia’s fuel crisis
From farms in New Zealand to factories in Delhi, the effects of the oil crisis triggered by the Iran war are r…
- Asia Pacific, Cruises, Environment, Overtourism, Pacific islands, Shipping emissions, South Pacific, Travel, Vanuatu, World news
Vanuatu Indigenous leaders raise concerns over plans to build resort for cruise tourists
Exclusive: Environmental impact assessments are ‘incomplete’, say leaders, and private beach club could harm f…
- Asia Pacific, Climate crisis, Donald Trump, Environment, Pacific islands, South Pacific, Trump administration, United Nations, Vanuatu, World news
Vanuatu moves forward with UN climate resolution despite Trump opposition
Pacific island says the US weakened its proposal to advance a key climate ruling but vows to hold major pollut…
- Asia Pacific, Australia news, Australian foreign policy, China, Pacific islands, Pacific Islands Forum, South Pacific, Vanuatu, World news
Vanuatu open to signing deal with Australia but will not be subject to ‘bullying’ from larger countries
Country moves to deepen policing ties with China as Australia continues negotiations on Nakamal agreement, whi…
- Asia Pacific, Climate crisis, Environment, Greenhouse gas emissions, International court of justice, Law, Pacific islands, Paris climate agreement, South Pacific, Vanuatu, World news
Vanuatu working toward UN vote aimed at fighting fossil-fuel industry influence
Ralph Regenvanu, minister of climate change for the Pacific island nation, says step taken on ‘behalf of every…
- Asia Pacific, Climate crisis, Environment, International court of justice, Law, Pacific islands, South Pacific, Vanuatu, World news
‘We were heard’: the Pacific students who took their climate fight to the ICJ – and won
In a packed court thousands of kilometres from home, Cynthia Houniuhi saw years of work come to fruition with …
-
Vanuatu criticises Australia for extending gas project while making Cop31 bid
Climate minister says greenlighting North West Shelf project until 2070 is not the leadership Pacific countrie…
- Asia Pacific, Australia news, China, Pacific islands, Pacific leaders: in their words, South Pacific, Vanuatu, World news
New Vanuatu PM says he will ‘revisit’ 2022 security agreement with Australia
Exclusive: Jotham Napat said pact must be taken ‘back to the drawing board’ and should reflect climate change …
-
‘Never seems to end’: exhausted quake-hit Vanuatu rebuilds again
True cost and psychological toll of the December quake emerges as the Pacific country grapples with its third …
-
Vanuatu holds election amid earthquake devastation
Residents line up to vote amid political instability and buildings and infrastructure shattered by last month’…
-
Vanuatu hit by another earthquake as hundreds of Australians return home
Magnitude 6.1 quake shakes country’s main island as RAAF flights carrying 144 passengers land in Brisbane and …
- Asia Pacific, Earthquakes, Natural disasters, Pacific islands, Penny Wong, South Pacific, Vanuatu, World news
Rescuers in Vanuatu race to retrieve trapped quake victims as survivors tell of escape
Witnesses recount the moment the earthquake hit in Port Vila, as rescue teams sift through the wreckage after …
- Asia Pacific, Climate crisis, International court of justice, Pacific islands, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, World news
Top UN court to begin hearings on landmark climate change case
ICJ to hear submissions from more than 100 groups in Pacific-led campaign to provide an advisory opinion on st…
-
The Cop29 agreement failed island states. Now the UN’s top court must act on climate harm | Ralph Regenvanu
The shortcomings of Cop29 increase the urgency for the ICJ to issue an advisory opinion on the legal obligatio…
-
‘Weather magic’ and wind lore: the push to preserve ancient knowledge in Vanuatu
‘Talking dictionaries’ among the tools used by researchers to document languages and record Indigenous environ…