{"id":7439,"date":"2019-08-20T09:31:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T00:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/20\/vanuatu-will-host-the-next-pacific-islands-forum-we-want-to-know-if-australia-really-wants-a-seat-at-the-table"},"modified":"2019-08-20T09:31:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T00:31:54","slug":"vanuatu-will-host-the-next-pacific-islands-forum-we-want-to-know-if-australia-really-wants-a-seat-at-the-table-ralph-regenvanu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7439","title":{"rendered":"Vanuatu will host the next Pacific Islands Forum. We want to know if Australia really wants a seat at the table | Ralph Regenvanu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Morrison should bring strong climate commitments to next year\u2019s forum to avoid a repeat of this year\u2019s summit<\/p>\n<p>Last week at the close of the Pacific Islands Forum in Tuvalu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/aug\/16\/revealed-fierce-pacific-forum-meeting-almost-collapsed-over-climate-crisis\">I described the leaders\u2019 discussions as frank and fierce<\/a>. It is now well-known that the leaders debated the text of the Kainaki II Declaration for Urgent Climate Change Action Now for many hours. I do not want to comment on the tone of the debate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/16\/fiji-pm-frank-bainimarama-insulting-scott-morrison-rift-pacific-countries\">as many others have done<\/a> that already.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, as incoming Pacific Islands Forum chair, Vanuatu has a message for Australia: we ask that Australia prepares well ahead of the next forum meeting in 2020 and comes to the table ready to make real, tangible commitments on climate change.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/20\/vanuatu-will-host-the-next-pacific-islands-forum-we-want-to-know-if-australia-really-wants-a-seat-at-the-table\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Morrison should bring strong climate commitments to next year\u2019s forum to avoid a repeat of this year\u2019s summitLast week at the close of the Pacific Islands Forum in Tuvalu I described the leaders\u2019 discussions as frank and fierce. It is now well-kn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,324,326,534,581,386,282,563,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-climate-change","category-coalition","category-pacific-islands-forum","category-scott-morrison","category-south-pacific","category-tuvalu","category-vanuatu","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7440,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions\/7440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}