Pre-COP31: Pacific Leaders Air Frustration over Climate Finance Delays

Pre-COP31: Pacific leaders air frustration over climate finance delays

Pacific Island leaders are expressing frustration over how long they have been discussing climate finance without seeing the results they want and need.

Pacific leaders air frustration over climate finance delays

By Tiana Haxrton, RNZ Pacific staffPago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Pacific Island leaders are expressing frustration over how long they have been discussing climate finance without seeing the results they want and need. At Pre-COP31 meeting in Fiji and Tuvalu, leaders discussed how to make sure climate finance actually reaches the communities who need it most. Australian Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen acknowledged that improving access to finan…

Forum SG Waqa welcomes US$13.3m in new Pacific climate finance pledges ahead of COP31

Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General Baron Divavesi Waqa has welcomed new climate finance commitments to the Pacific Resilience Facility (PRF), as Pacific leaders push for greater access to funding for climate and disaster resilience ahead of COP31. The latest pledges bring total commitments to the PRF to US$190 million, following Fiji’s US$10 million contribution announced […]

Pacific climate fund still US$320m short of target ahead of COP31

The Pacific’s newly operational regional climate fund is still US$320 million short of the minimum capitalisation it needs, with Pacific leaders urging international partners to turn pledges into actual funding before COP31.Climate Fund. The Pacific Resilience Facility (PRF) has a minimum capitalisation target of US$500 million, Tonga’s Prime Minister Lord Fatafehi Fakafanua said at a pre-COP31 Turning Climate Finance into Community Resilience s…