Climate change, debt and COVID-19
This study provides an analysis of the linkages between multi-hazard exposure, lack of resilience, resulting disaster risk with related loss and damage, sovereign debt risks, and the lack of investment
Papua New Guinea
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El Niño blamed for doubling of major droughts in 2015
The number of major droughts recorded globally in 2015 was more than double the 10-year average, due to a severe El Niño weather event, the top UN disaster risk official said here Wednesday. The effects
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Weather, war threaten to leave millions more hungry in 2016- aid agencies
Millions more people globally are facing the threat of severe food and water shortages in early 2016 as droughts and flood devastate crops and strain a humanitarian system already struggling to meet needs,
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5.2-magnitude quake hits 94km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea
An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale jolted 94km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea at 22:04:36 GMT on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 56.09 km, was initially
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Warning bells of El Nino humanitarian disaster are deafening: Australian aid agency
The "super-charged" El Nino weather system could leave 4.7 million people across the Pacific with widespread hunger, thirst and disease if the global community doesn't urgently act as drought and erratic
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'The Blob' warm pool in the Pacific may prolong life of monster El Nino
The powerful "Great Godzilla" El Nino in the Pacific may last as much as two months longer than expected because of another unusual climate phenomenon scientists have nick-named "The Blob". First observed
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Climate change, food security, and socioeconomic livelihood in Pacific Islands
This report assesses the impact of climate change on agriculture and fisheries in three Pacific Island countries, including the impacts on agricultural production, economic returns for major crops, and
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UN urges Pacific island countries to prepare for looming El Nino emergency
The UN has urged Pacific island nations to prepare now for a looming El Nino emergency which could affect more than 4 million people, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters here Tuesday. The
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Australia slammed for Minister Peter Dutton’s climate joke, ‘insensitivity’ on refusing climate plea
A ferry and recreational boats pass in front of the Sydney Opera House September 28, 2014. Local media reported that the Sydney Opera House Trust has been awarded an AUD$225,000 ($200,000) grant by the
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Severe drought, floods destroy crops in Papua New Guinea highlands
One day last March, farmers in this village on the banks of the Kafetina River, in the mountainous highlands of Papua New Guinea, watched their food gardens swept away by pouring rain, flooding and landslides.
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Papua New Guinea warns of worst drought in 20 years
An intensifying El Nino may bring the worst drought in 20 years to Papua New Guinea, the country's prime minister said, raising fears that production of the country's critical agricultural commodities