{"id":76602,"date":"2026-03-05T20:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/05\/vanuatu-un-climate-crisis-trump"},"modified":"2026-03-05T20:00:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:00:02","slug":"vanuatu-moves-forward-with-un-climate-resolution-despite-trump-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76602","title":{"rendered":"Vanuatu moves forward with UN climate resolution despite Trump opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific island says the US weakened its proposal to advance a key climate ruling but vows to hold major polluters accountable<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration\u2019s attempt to sink a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/unitednations\">UN<\/a> resolution demanding countries act on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/climate-crisis\">climate crisis<\/a> has caused cuts to the proposal but hasn\u2019t entirely killed it, according to the tiny Pacific island country spearheading the effort.<\/p>\n<p>The US has demanded that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/vanuatu\">Vanuatu<\/a>, an archipelago in the south Pacific, drop its UN draft resolution that calls on the world to implement a landmark international court of justice (ICJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/jul\/23\/healthy-environment-is-a-human-right-top-un-court-rules\">ruling from last year<\/a> that countries could face paying reparations if they fail to stem the climate crisis.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/05\/vanuatu-un-climate-crisis-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific island says the US weakened its proposal to advance a key climate ruling but vows to hold major polluters accountableThe Trump administration\u2019s attempt to sink a UN resolution demanding countries act on the climate crisis has caused cuts to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5202,"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":[41,2331,415,65,874,282,554,84,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-donald-trump","category-environment","category-pacific-islands","category-south-pacific","category-trump-administration","category-united-nations","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\/76602","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\/5202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76603,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76602\/revisions\/76603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}