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Low carbon cities: Engines for driving carbon neutrality in Asia and the Pacific

Photo credit: ESCAP/East and North-East Asia Office Op-ed

07
Dec
2022
Low carbon cities: Engines for driving carbon neutrality in Asia and the Pacific

Cities are key players in combatting climate change and its effects. They are responsible for 70 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions and consume 80 per cent of global energy. Thus, without…

Children in Vanuatu

UNICEF Op-ed

11
Dec
2020
Celebrating Vanuatu’s path to sustainable development

The Pacific Island Developing State of Vanuatu has emerged as one of the region’s great success stories. Vanuatu has joined the ranks of Samoa and the Maldives as one of only six countries to…

A boat rests on the shores of Fiji

Unsplash / Nicolas Weldingh Op-ed

30
Jun
2020
Sustainable tourism and fisheries key to growth in post-COVID Pacific

Developing countries of Asia and the Pacific are experiencing unbalanced tolls of the COVID-19 pandemic. Grim milestones in infections and deaths have left countless devastated. Yet, we must look at…