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Pacific civil society condemns COP30’s weak outcomes, warning that without finance and a fossil fuel phaseout, 1.5°C and frontline communities remain at grave risk.

PICANs reaction to the newly release Mutirão text after two days in a holding pattern.x

Negotiations over the COP31 presidency continue in Belém as Australia and Türkiye work toward agreement within the WEOG group. Pacific Island countries continue to push for climate talks that centre frontline communities. PICAN’s Dr Sindra Sharma stresses that the unresolved COP31 outcome does not change global responsibility to keep warming to 1.5°C and that final COP30 decisions will set the foundation for ambition and justice next year.

The latest UN Environment Programme Emissions Gap Report 2025 delivers yet another stark warning - the world is still far off track to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, with current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) leading us towards a devastating 2.3–2.5°C pathway of warming. For the Pacific, where the impacts of the climate crisis are already a lived reality, this failure to act with urgency is nothing short of an injustice.

PICAN welcomes key achievements of the 54th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders' Meeting, including the establishment of the Pacific Resilience Facility and the adoption of the Blue Pacific Ocean of Peace Declaration. These are important steps towards resilience and justice for frontline Pacific communities.

PICAN calls for climate accountability from Prime Minister Albanese, stating that an approval of the North West Shelf gas project and a failure to set a 1.5C-aligned climate plan would amount to an 'assault' on Pacific communities, and a breach of its international obligations.

Negotiations at INC5.2 in Geneva failed to produce the ambitious and legally binding global plastics treaty the world needs, leaving Pacific peoples exposed to ongoing harm from plastic pollution. The talks were marred by a broken process and heavy industry influence, with 234 fossil fuel and chemical lobbyists registered. Pacific Small Island Developing States led with clear, science based demands. PICAN calls for negotiators to reconvene urgently and fix the rules that allo

New analysis of INC-5.2 participation exposes a concerning level of fossil fuel and chemical industry presence, with at least 234 registered lobbyists. Civil society, Indigenous and scientific voices warn this corporate capture risks shaping a treaty meant to end plastic pollution. PICAN calls on UNEP and the INC Secretariat to adopt robust conflict of interest rules so negotiations serve people and planet, not industry profit.

The International Court of Justice has given climate justice legal force, affirming that governments and corporations are obliged to cut emissions, protect human rights, and repair climate harm. PICAN unpacks what this means for Small Island Developing States: 1.5°C as a hard limit, an end to fossil fuel expansion and export, real public finance, loss and damage remedies, and recognition that sea level rise does not erase statehood. Read our full analysis and reactions.

As SB62 draws to a close in Bonn, it has become clear that the climate process is veering dangerously out of touch with the scale of the global crisis, and once again leaving Small Island Developing States (SIDS) stranded between political posturing and policy paralysis.

PICAN condemns Australia’s approval of the North West Shelf gas project extension to 2070—calling it a betrayal of Pacific communities and a threat to global climate goals. The move casts serious doubt on Australia’s COP31 co-hosting bid and undermines Pacific-led climate leadership.

PICAN responds to UN findings on Coca-Cola’s plastic pollution in Samoa, highlighting corporate negligence and calling for urgent action. The Pacific must not be a dumping ground for plastic waste. We stand for climate justice, human rights, and binding solutions through the Global Plastics Treaty.

Pacific civil society organisations are urging leaders to honour their responsibility to West Papua amidst 63 years of resistance.

COP29 failed to deliver on funding and stalled on key issues like fossil fuel phase-out and Loss and Damage.

PICAN responds to the revised text for the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) on Climate Finance at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) issues historic ruling that enhances the legal basis for marine environment pollut

Today marks a significant milestone in the historic campaign to take climate change to the world’s highest court, the International Court of

Of those countries that have not yet endorsed phasing out fossil fuels, very few have actively opposed. Almost all the remaining countries w

PICAN's initial response to the latest draft of the proposed text for the Global Stocktake which will be negotiated in the final hours at CO

While we celebrate progress on several fronts including the historic language on a just transition and a commitment to the establishment of