Everyone claims to follow the science. Few seem to have read it.
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Everyone claims to follow the science. Few seem to have read it.
PICAN is hiring an Executive Administrator.
This role strengthens the systems behind Pacific-led climate justice. Based in Suva and only open to Fiji nationals or those authorised to work in Fiji. Full-time, 3-year contract.
To learn more, visit pican.org/vacancies
Raising the Morning Star in solidarity with West Papua.
Climate justice in the Pacific requires decolonisation - liberation, land rights, and self-determination. Our region cannot be free or climate-resilient while colonial violence continues.
PC: Dylan Kava | PICAN
#COP30 may not have delivered the outcomes our region needed, but it has strengthened our calls for the world to aim higher.
The PICAN network will continue to champion pathways that protect our homes, cultures, and futures.
www.rnz.co.nz/internationa...
#PICANatCOP30
And that’s a wrap from our tiny PICAN #COP30 team in Belém, Brazil 🇧🇷.
Grateful to share updates, support Pacific delegations, and connect with amazing Pacific CSOs.
Stay tuned for our End Game analysis as we assess outcomes for Pacific Climate Justice. #PICANatCOP30
"There is nothing to celebrate. That is the truth. All we have done is to defer action, given room for growth for fossil fuels, redlined justice, and harmed the integrity of science. All we did was to create processes instead of delivering outcomes."
www.pican.org/cop30-outcome
Ah yes, the universe reminding us, yet again, that the Pacific feels the impacts first. Even at COP. Even indoors. 🙃
Heavy rain hit #COP30 & the Moana Blue Pacific Pavilion flooded, forcing cancellations and a cordoned-off space… while everyone else carried on.
#PICANatCOP30
We are 269 members strong. 269 Pacific voices powering our fight for climate justice.
Our network directly guides our priorities, grounds our advocacy, and holds us to a just, resilient, self-determined Pacific.
Become a member: www.pican.org/members
We are 269 members strong. 269 Pacific voices powering our fight for climate justice.
Our network directly guides our priorities, grounds our advocacy, and holds us to a just, resilient, self-determined Pacific.
Become a member: www.pican.org/members
At COP30 in Belém do Pará, more than 50,000 people made history with a clear, unified message:
“It is time to bury fossil fuels and build a clean, just future.”
Today, we symbolically laid fossil fuels to rest. ✊
While #COP30 continues in Belém, PICAN is also in Vanuatu meeting with our Vanuatu node, VCAN, to support their work as they roll out their 2026–2028 Strategy.
Our commitment has always been global advocacy AND strengthened regional resilience.
Day 2 at #COP30 and climate obstruction is on full display. Some countries are challenging science itself, pushing “alternative facts” to weaken ambition.
But AOSIS, LDCs and the Pacific held firm: facts are not politics — data is survival. We won’t let delay win.
#PICANatCOP30
Day 1 at #COP30. Ten years since Paris, and once again, it’s the Small Islands leading the charge. As the world tracks toward 2.3–2.5°C, the Pacific and SIDS stand firm: 1.5°C isn’t ambition or target. It’s survival.
#PICANatCOP30
Across the Global South, communities are being displaced, ecosystems destroyed, and Indigenous lands exploited — all in the name of a 'green transition.' This is climate colonialism, and it needs to end. Read more about this in our new Oxfam report: policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/un...
🚨Another UN report, another warning.
The new UN #EmissionsGapReport shows we’re headed for up to 2.5°C of warming.
At #COP30, leaders must show courage, phase out fossil fuels, and deliver climate justice. 1.5°C is still alive — if we fight for it.
➡️ bit.ly/emissions-2025
The Pacific is watching as Australia, and the worlds biggest producers, continue to profit from pollution while our islands fight to survive.
A little closer to home and the report exposes that Australia’s 🇦🇺 gas & oil production surged 77% - the biggest relative increase among the top 15 producers - driven by a doubling of gas.
The US 🇺🇸 drove 90% of the global increase in oil & gas extraction.
📈 +11 million barrels of oil equivalent per day from 2015 - 2024
💥 More than 5x as much as any other country
Recent analysis by @oilchange.bsky.social shows that since the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015, just four Global North countries derailed potential for global progress in phasing out oil & gas by collectively increasing their production by nearly 40 percent between 2015 and 2024.
The Pacific youth wave keeps rising 🌊
We’re thrilled to welcome Jo-Jikum from the Marshall Islands 🇲🇭 to the PICAN family, a youth-led movement using art, storytelling & community action to power climate justice across our Blue Pacific Continent.
Learn more about their amazing work ➡️ jojikum.org
COP30 is our chance to close the ambition gap and keep 1.5°C alive.
The Pacific Climate Justice Demands 2025 call for:
🌡️ A fossil fuel phaseout
💰 Reparative public finance
🌊 Action for climate, nature, and people
Justice must lead the way.
🔗 pican.org/pacific-dema...
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PICAN and RMI representatives on the margins of the 54th Pacific Island Forum Leaders’ Meeting in Honiara, Solomon Islands.
At #54PIFLM, PICAN was grateful to meet with the representatives of the Republic of the Marshall Islands Govt.
We look forward to supporting RMI’s priorities, especially in the science-policy space, to uplift frontline Pacific voices in global climate action.
#PICANat54PIFLM
Important directions for our region will be set in Honiara this week at #54PIFLM and civil society is here to ensure Pacific people shape the outcome.
Next week, the PRNGO Alliance is continuing its commitment to contribute meaningfully to regional governance and cooperation.
Preparations are underway for the #54PIFLM taking place next week here in the Hapi Isles 🇸🇧.
We are kindly being hosted by the Solomon Islands Climate Action Network-SICAN team and partnering with them to deliver a number of events throughout the week.
Mifala luk fowod fo niu week kakam ya
234 industry lobbyists are in Geneva for INC 5.2! And this is likely to be a highly conservative number.
What we’re seeing across the plastics, biodiversity, climate and science spaces is a widespread fossil capture of multilateralism.
Sadly the same tactics used by blocker countries in the climate space is being employed here at #INC52.
These countries thrive in the grey area so we must continue to remind them of the mandate handed down by the UNEA 5/14 resolution!
FULL LIFECYCLE OF PLASTICS!
Is Shell’s PR team now running COP30’s media?!!! 🤯
How can climate justice win when fossil fuel enablers hold the mic? Climate justice must not be allowed to be co-opted by the very industry behind our destruction!
A Shell-linked PR firm just won the COP30 media contract 🤯🤮
For Pacific Island peoples already facing the frontlines of climate collapse, this is a slap in the face. Climate justice cannot be co-opted by the very industry behind our destruction.
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/07/30/p...
We draw the line at 1.5°C. For survival. For justice. For our islands. The ICJ has affirmed the legal obligation of governments to limit global warming to below 1.5°C. 🎉 Shoutout to @PISFCC + allies making history. Sept 19–21: We mobilize. #DrawTheLine drawtheline.world
Last week the world watched the #ClimateICJAO. The Pacific Youth that took the issue to the ICJ went from anxious to proud as the judges delivered real climate justice.
Sera Sefeti’s report captures every moment ➡️ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
