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Climate ActionDecember 8, 2025

Gran Canaria becomes a European benchmark in coastal adaptation

Excerpt from rtvc.es The Gran Canaria Island Council and the European Executive Agency responsible for the implementation of the LIFE Programme (CINEA) led the First Conference on Coastal Adaptation to Climate Change in Island Regions, organized by the LIFE COSTAdapta project, in a meeting that brought together public administrations, European specialists, universities and citizens at the headquarters of the Gran Canaria Island Energy Council (CIEGC). The event highlighted the urgency of taking action against the climate impacts already affecting the coastline and confirmed that Gran Canaria is moving towards a leading European role in implementing nature-based solutions to protect the most vulnerable coastal areas.

Climate ActionDecember 8, 2025

Looking ahead to COP31: ensuring Pacific and island voices are heard

Excerpt from islandsbusiness.com PACIFIC leaders and representatives of overseas countries and territories are rushing to ensure that their voices are not pushed to the margins again. Regional governments and organisations have emerged from COP30 in Belem, Brazil facing the reality that their voices remain largely unheard, their concerns unrecognized by larger, more powerful nations. The region has started to pivot from negotiation to delivery after COP30, fully aware of the loneliness they face on the frontline of rising seas and intensifying storms. They have long argued that smaller nations face disproportionate impacts from climate change yet remain excluded from key climate finance and decision-making channels. An analysis by the Green Overseas Programme shows that without deliberate action, the progress made at COP30 will fall short of producing real change for those most exposed to the climate crisis. Ahab Downer, Director of the Green Overseas Programme, stressed the need for systemic change.

Climate ActionDecember 8, 2025

Tides of justice: how SIDS are redefining the fight against climate change

Excerpt from odi.org In October 2025, the devastating impact of Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm was felt across Jamaica and the wider Caribbean. This catastrophic event laid bare once more the vulnerability of island nations to escalating extremes of nature, and the chaos climate inaction can and will wreak across the globe if world leaders do note take more decisive action on climate change.

Climate ActionDecember 8, 2025

Massive hidden waves are rapidly melting Greenland’s glaciers

Photo credit: Andreas Vieli, University of Zurich via sciencedaily.com Excerpt from sciencedaily.com Researchers in Greenland used a 10-kilometer fiber-optic cable to track how iceberg calving stirs up warm seawater. The resulting surface tsunamis and massive hidden underwater waves intensify melting at the glacier face. This powerful mixing effect accelerates ice loss far more than previously understood. The work highlights how fragile the Greenland ice system has become as temperatures rise.

Climate ActionNovember 24, 2025

Climate disasters will send many countries into a debt spiral – but there’s a way out

Excerpt from theinvadingsea.com After years of disciplined reform and painful sacrifice, Jamaica had done what few global debt specialists thought possible. Through tough and sometimes controversial spending cuts and fiscal discipline, it slashed its debt from a staggering 150% of GDP in 2013 to just 62% by 2024. By 2025, Jamaica was hitting its stride. One internationally recognized credit rating agency upgraded the country’s credit ratings from category BB- to BB (slightly less vulnerable in the near term to adverse economic conditions). This gives the country more leeway to borrow on the international market. Unemployment and crime rates were falling. Jamaica’s economy was on track for one of its best years in decades.

Climate ActionNovember 24, 2025

Fighting climate change with imaginative methods in East Timor

Excerpt from FRANCE 24 English YouTube channel As countries gather in Brazil for the COP 30 climate change conference, FRANCE 24 travels to East Timor, where global warming is wreaking havoc on the fishing industry. The isolated island nation and its 1.4 million people face coastal erosion, rising sea levels and dwindling marine resources. In response, local people are using imaginative methods to tackle overfishing. Report by Juliette Chaignon, Guillaume Gosalbes and Justin McCurry.

Climate ActionNovember 20, 2025

It's shameful: Sinking island nation attacks Trump for ignoring climate emergency

Photo credit: Reuters via indiatoday.in Excerpt from indiatoday.in At COP30 in Brazil, the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu issued one of the conference’s sharpest statements, calling out powerful nations, most notably the US, for ignoring the climate emergency that threatens Tuvalu's very existence. “The US has withdrawn from the Paris climate agreement, and I think that’s a shameful thing to do,” Tuvalu’s climate minister, Maina Vakafua Talia said.

Climate ActionNovember 16, 2025

'Ego manoeuvring' behind the scenes at COP30, Pacific delegate at the UN climate talks says

Photo Credit: AFP / Ludovic Marin via rnz.co.nz Excerpt from rnz.co.nz Pacific Islands Forum's climate adviser Karlos Lee Moresi, who is at the talks in Belém, said the negotiations for who will host COP31 is tough. "We have Australia with the Pacific very adamant that we need, not only do we want, we need to have a COP in the Pacific. The Türkiye position is they're not giving up," Moresi said. "In all honesty, there's a bit of political and ego manoeuvring happening behind the scenes." Moresi said he thought Türkiye was trying to influence European countries to host the event. He said as a last resort, and if COP is hosted in Türkiye, the Pacific would want something from Türkiye in response. "It is not something that we're really entertaining actively as an option to put forward on the table for now." COP30 began in Belém on Monday. It has been 10 years since the landmark Paris Agreement was signed.

Climate ActionNovember 16, 2025

Samuda to lobby COP30 for faster access to funds after climate disasters

Excerpt from radiojamaicanewsonline.com Minister of Water, Environment and Climate Change, Matthew Samuda, says he will be calling for reforms to facilitate easier and greater access to funds needed after catastrophic events, such as Hurricane Melissa, at the UN's Climate Conference on Saturday. The COP30 meeting opened in the Brazilian Amazon on Monday. Some 50,000 delegates are gathered for the two-week meeting. Mr. Samuda says his message will be direct as it relates to funding mechanisms after devastation caused by climate-related natural disasters.