Now available: the fourth of our factsheets on the #BBNJ Agreement, focusing on environmental impact assessments. Factsheet here: un.org/bbnjagreement/… For previous and upcoming factsheets, visit: un.org/bbnjagreement/…

1 week after stepping down as Vanuatu's Minister for Climate Change Adaptation, I am honoured to have been appointed as Vanuatu's Special Envoy for Climate Change and Environment. I look forward to continuing the important advocacy work in this space.

His Excellency António Guterres , UN🇺🇳 Secretary-General is visiting Samoa🇼🇸 for the first time as part of his visit to the Pacific ahead of the PIF Leaders meeting in Tonga🇹🇴 from 26-30 August 2024.

Honourable Fiame Naomi Mataafa, Prime Minister of Samoa, meeting with The UN Secretary-General António Guterres in Samoa.

.António Guterres tells Pacific Island leaders: the world has much to learn from the Pacific and the world must also step up to support your initiatives. #PIFLM53 His full remarks: un.org/sg/en/content/…

Heading to Tonga for the PIF leaders meeting in Nuku’alofa. Climate change, New Caledonia and regional security issues likely to dominate but plenty of other issues are also bubbling away. Here’s a preview that Marian Kupu and I pulled together abc.net.au/news/2024-08-2…

Great piece of journalism from Solomon Islands over Guadalcanal residents anxious after big US dump of World War Two ammunition discovered under school indepthsolomons.com.sb/week-after-uxo…

#PIFLM53 It was an eventful day! While delivering an incredible Opening Ceremony, #Tonga also endured torrential rain and was jolted by a 6.9 magnitude earthquake. Our Pacific vulnerabilities are very real. #TransformativeResilientPasifiki

I'm in Tonga to issue a global SOS – Save Our Seas. Global average sea levels are rising at rates unprecedented in the past 3,000 years. The ocean is overflowing because of climate change. The world must #ActNow & answer the SOS before it's too late. un.org/climatechange/…

The Forum Leaders Plenary session is underway at #PIFLM53 Key regional priorities and issues on the agenda incl the #2050Strategy, #ClimateChange & #Resilience and #RegionalPeace Remarks by the Forum Chair: bit.ly/4dFcNlc Remarks by SG Waqa: bit.ly/4e055Sf

🧵Education is at the center of 2050 Blue Pacific Strategy and cuts across all 7 thematic areas. In order to fully realize the Blue Pacific Strategy, it is vital that we build strong, safe, and resilient regional education systems. Extremely pleased to share that…..

During my visit to Tonga, I heard directly from civil society and local communities how climate change and sea level rise are upending their lives. I urge Pacific countries to continue raising their voices for #ClimateAction. If we save the Pacific, we save the world.

Exited to be in Tonga to meet Leades of the Pacific Island States & to address the Pacific Islands Forum as a Dialogue Partner. 🇳🇴& the Pacific Islands are bound together by the oceans. We have a shared commitment to resilient prosperity, sustainable development & ocean conservation & use!

Thank you, BBC News (UK), for inviting me to give live comments on the (solid, unequivocal) scientific groundings of United Nations ocean & climate diplomacy, exemplified by profound SOS messages from #UNSG António Guterres at the @ForumSec leaders' meeting in Tonga. #ClimateJustice #PIFLM53

We look forward to the #OceanFutures2030 event on ocean governance organised w/ La France en Norvège on 17 Sept. #OF2030 🌊 Moderators Lise Øvreås & João Bettencourt look forward to meet representatives from across sectors. Speakers TBA next week. INFO & REGISTRATION👉 shorturl.at/GKc6N

At #PIFLM53, the Regional Kava Development Strategy 2024 was launched by Princess Angelika Lātūfuipeka Tukuʿaho and Forum Secretary General Baron Waqa. Officials and exporters from kava producing nations talked of the need for co-ordination of exports and cultural protection.

US 'gives Australia the lane' on Pacific policing - Campbell rnz.co.nz/international/…

From Universitetet i Bergen, our profound gratitude to The University of the South Pacific & Norway MFA for marking the Norad funded Norway-Pacific Ocean-Climate Scholarship Programme #N_POC (w. 19 PhDs) during the Tonga Pacific Islands Forum meeting. Thank you, Deputy Minister Andreas Motzfeldt Kravik, USP VC Professor Pal Ahluwalia, USP VC, & Anne Grete Riise.

Honored to meet with Her Royal Highness Princess Angelica Latufuipeka Halaevalu Mata’aho Napua-O-Kalani of Tonga. We discussed 🇹🇴🇳🇴longstanding and close relationship and our unbreakable bond to the ocean. 🙏

Only 2 weeks to go before the next #OceanFutures2030 event & today we start announcing the speakers, incl Françoise Gaill Peter M Haugan FredrikMyhre & Hege Hammersland. 🌊 #OF2030 #SDG14 #ForTheOcean #OceanDecade 🐟 REGISTER FOR THE EVENT NOW 👉 shorturl.at/GKc6N