Sri Lanka communities left gasping for climate mitigation support
| | COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, 18 March 2025 (Mongabay) - Despite being highly vulnerable to climate risk, Sri Lanka is slow to tap into climate funding due to a range of issues including inadequate data systems, institutional weaknesses and limited capacity to design and implement viable projects. |
Political appointments in Indonesian climate program spark outcry
| | JAKARTA, Indonesia, 18 March 2025 (Mongabay) - Indonesian Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni has appointed seemingly unqualified members of his political party to a key program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, raising concerns over political favoritism and lack of climate expertise. |
Kiribati eyes deep-sea mining deal with China
| | SYDNEY, Australia, 18 March 2025 (AFP) - Pacific nation Kiribati says it is exploring a deep-sea mining partnership with China, dangling access to a vast patch of Pacific Ocean harbouring coveted metals and minerals. Beijing has been ramping up efforts to court Pacific nations sitting on lucrative seafloor deposits of cobalt, nickel and copper - recently inking a cooperation deal with Cook Islands. |
Hope for endangered penguins as no-fishing zones agreed
| | JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 18 March 2025 (Guardian) - Efforts to stop the critically endangered African penguin from going extinct took a step forward on Tuesday after South African conservationists and fishing industry groups reached a legal settlement on no-fishing zones around six of the penguins’ major breeding colonies. Sardine and anchovy fishing will not be allowed for 12 miles (20km) around the penguin colony off Cape Town on Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, and Bird Island, across the bay from Gqeberha, also known as Port Elizabeth. |
Solomon Islands: Rising seas force relocation
| | HONIARA, Solomon Islands, 17 March 2025 (HRW) - Sea level rise and other climate impacts - compounded by insecure land tenure, limited access to land, and inadequate government support - are undermining the rights of the people of Walande, an Indigenous community in Solomon Islands, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Despite taking the last resort measure of leaving their island home to escape the impacts of climate change, the community is still at risk. |
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SPREP |
 | | Fourth Pacific Ocean Pacific Climate Change Conference, 20-24 May 2024, Apia, Samoa |
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SIDS |
| | 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States 27-30 May 2024, Antigua and Barbuda |
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NAF |
| | North Atlantic Forum bi-annual international conference 17-21 June, 2024, Connemara, Ireland, |
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ISISA |
| | 19th Islands of the World Conference 25-29 June, 2024, Lombok Island, Indonesia |
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IWRA |
| | 1st Islands Water Congress 4-6 Sept, 2024, Torshavn, Faroe Islands |
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ANATOMY OF ISLANDS |
| | 12th Anatomy of Islands symposium 26-28 Sept, 2024, Jelsa, Hvar Island, Croatia |
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CIS |
| | Critical Island Studies 4th international conference 3-4 Oct, 2024, Manila, Philippines |
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CBD |
| | COP16 21 Oct-1 Nov, 2024, Cali, Colombia |
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UNFCCC |
| | COP29 11-22 November, 2024, Baku, Azerbaijan |
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ISLAND DYNAMICS |
| | DARKNESS II conference, 20-23 January 2025, Nuuk, Greenland |
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JICAS |
| | Islands And Island Studies conference 3-7 June, 2025, Jersey, Channel Islands |
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UNITED NATIONS |
| | UN Ocean Conference 9-13 June, 2025, Nice, France |
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UPEI |
| | 3rd international conference on SIS and SNIJs 16-20 June, 2025, Charlottetown, PEI |
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