Historic Climate Declaration in the Pacific

Pacific Island countries have made history with the first ever community-led climate declaration in the region. 

Major Pacific civil society organisations, including the Pacific Islands Association of NGOs (PIANGO), Pacific Islands Climate Action Network (PICAN), the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC), Caritas Oceania, 350 Pacific and many grassroots Pacific Island organisations, came together from the 17-19 October in Fiji to put together the Kioa Climate Emergency Declaration 2022.   

The Pacific region has previously called for climate action with the Suva Climate Change Declaration (2015), Boe Declaration (2018), Kainaki II Declaration (2019) and the 2050 Blue Pacific Strategy (2022). Many of these declarations have been made by political leaders, rather than organisations working with the communities who are most affected by climate change.   

The Kioa Climate Emergency Declaration 2022 will be presented to the global community at COP27 in Egypt in November.  
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The declaration comes ahead of Caritas Oceania and Jubilee Australia Research Centre’s climate finance report titled: Twin clouds on the horizon

Source: Caritas Australia
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